(Note: Wow, did I ever lie to myself about how long it would take to finish editing True Magics. But it’s done! And now, a blog post!) It’s the time when income slows down to a trickle and expenses are blooming like dandelions in a Kentucky Bluegrass lawn in...
Sometimes we have pieces that just don’t work. At all. I’ve got at least a half-dozen short stories and one novel that will never, ever see the light of day. Ever. But how do you know when you’ve gotten to that point? How do you know when your labour of love/hate...
I now have 10,000 twitter followers! Joy! Excitement! Thrills! Sort of… Why 10,000? Because it’s big shiny number and it looks impressive! No, seriously. I wrote here why I used follow-backs to gain followers. In short, it allows me to find people with similar...
I was hoping to make a joke about how I was trying to write about writer’s block and got writer’s block from attempting to write, and be all meta or something. (Is that meta? What is meta anyway? Is it meta to reference meta, or is it only meta when I reference myself...
(Also called “Building a Marketing Plan, part 1.” I thought I should change the title to reflect what we’re talking about. I hear that helps people to know what they’re reading and, you know, find stuff on the internet.) Meanwhile: It’s Planning Time! This...