What makes a writer? Some say, to be a good writer, it’s practice. Others, imagination. Some will swear you’re born with it. Maybe by emulating others you can get there. I think it’s a little of all of these things. Obviously you need practice otherwise you are not going to get anywhere. Even when writer’s […]
Okay, really 2017? Just like that, you’re a sixth over. My least favorite sixth too—I hate the cold New England weather. So there’s that. But stop flying by so quickly! This is going to be a short and sweet post, as I’m sure all of the month-end ones will be. I’m more focused on the […]
“Kill your darlings.” I hate that term. It was first introduced to me by my friend Gina Rosati (you should check out her book, Auracle, here—you’ll love it!) during a meet the writers session at our local library. Widely attributed to William Faulkner, but first known to be said by Arthur Quiller-Couch, the saying basically […]
…. …. …. Writers block sucks. I’d liken it to that feeling you get when your crush is heading your way and you want to talk to them, but. Just. Can’t. Even if they smile and wave and would likely hang out for a while. The blank screen, the empty piece of paper—they’re just waiting […]
I was recently thinking about the brainstorming process and what comes after. There are two schools of thought for drafting your story once you come up with an idea: You can either plot out everything in an elaborate outline or you can go by the seat of your pants and just make it up as […]
The first month of 2017 absolutely flew by. I feel like I was just getting started on my writing goals yesterday, but here we are on the 31st and halfway through what I consider to be the worst two-month stretch of the year: January and February. It’s too dark and too cold! But I digress. […]
As I sit here writing this, DJ Tone Terra is mixing live over the radio. It’s a funny thing, being a DJ—there’s a lot more skill involved than just fading songs in and out on the turntables. There are BPMs to match, keys to consider, listener requests to work in. I’ve played around on Virtual […]
Today I’m going to go in a different direction. I’m going to talk about nothing more than some of my favorite books. These are the authors that I aspire to be like—and although I’ll skip over the obvious books like Harry Potter, know that authors like J.K. Rowling have played a big role in my […]
Do you ever get a great idea and then it just kind of…fizzles out? I do. All the time. I had one in mind earlier this week that I started, wrote about 400 words, and then decided it wouldn’t work. So I set it aside. I have a Word document with dozens of story ideas—working […]
I have a confession: I’m notoriously bad at New Year’s resolutions. I guess it’s a problem that most of us face, but unlike most people I usually don’t even get started on the project I want to undertake. Something inevitably happens that keeps me from getting up and running, and then, at the time when […]