[Pen/Pencil Reveiw] Memorial Day Holiday Rerun – The Lamy Studio
I wrote this back in 2010 – before I knew really what I was dong with the reviews and really go them started. I meant to have this up quite a while ago, but I’ve had plugin issues today. Me and com Most people who know me, know me for two things: my love of […]
[From the Archive] StrangeWords Articles are Changing
I think I may have finally reached the point where I started up here…which means I need to figure out what to do on Fridays now… Don’t forget… Comic Book Show this Sunday, April 1st – Arlington Hilton – come see me and artist, Ben Dunn. —- I want to thank any and all of […]
[From the Archive] The Long Haul Projects
This week’s archive post… ______ In my quest to coordinate my life and my writing, I’m stuck in the middle of two “Long Haul Projects” – novels both. These are two very different projects requiring totally different mindsets. How do most writers handle that? Simply put, many don’t. Probably most don’t. The – most likely […]
[From the Archive] Embracing the Low Tech
This is actually appropriate – considering I had a computer hiccup earlier this week (still in the process of diagnosis), and I’ve spent time out and about with a notebook and pen… _____ Besides having an innate love of all things ink and graphite, and my love of (vetted) High Technology (yes, Virginia, there is […]
[From the Archive] To Enter or Not to Enter – that is the Question
This week’s archive post… Many new writers wonder if entering contests is worthwhile – both to their careers and to their budgets. The answer to that – as with just about everything else in the publishing industry is…maybe. Picking a contest is a lot like picking an agent or publisher. You have to weigh the […]
[From the Archive] Now thta the Season has Moved from Winter to Spring…
Ironic. This was written in April 2010 – but here in January 2012 we’ve had Springlike temps which are shifting back to Winter norms for February (because February is just that unpredictable – which may be way so many creative people are born in this tiny little month). ————— Now that the season has moved […]
[From the Archive] The Greatest Backhanded Compliment to Authors
No matter what your opinion is of used bookstores (and there are good arguments for and against them) their existence can be a great backhanded compliment to writers. What weird backhanded compliment would that be? When you can’t find them in the stores. Okay, here’s what I mean by that. A lot of us in […]
[From the Archive] Standard Manuscript Format
Because every year or two, we have to trot this out… this is from early 2010… Feel free to comment and debate at will. __________ One of the fundamental tenants of professional writing is to put every manuscript into “Standard Manuscript Format”. What few people tell new writers is that there’s no longer a set […]
[From the Archive] The Rule of Writing
This post was written in early 2010… I’m sure I’ve addressed it numerous times since. Announcements: I’ll be appearing at the North Texas Comic Book Show tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 14th from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Arlington Hilton just west of 360 on Lamar. Also, I’m participating in ConJour on the University of […]
[From the Archive] When the Publishing World Doesn’t Hand Me Articles
From early 2010… one of the first “blathering” posts…sadly, not the last. ————– When the publishing world doesn’t hand me my articles on a silver platter (like it has for the last couple of weeks), I sometimes struggle to come up with something interesting. So I fall back on the day-to-day struggle of writing and […]