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Don’t be Late Again! A Review of “Late” by G. Pacie
This book feels like having a good chat with someone who, like you, always finds themselves running a little late. Except the author of this book has been working on the issue for years and have all sorts of insight. So instead of imagining a chat at a cafe with another chronically late person, imagine […]
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Do You Strive for Mastery, or Simply to Write?
What is one piece of advice that just doesn’t work for me? That it’s okay not to write every day. I experienced unfinished work, plummeted productivity and even quality. Robert A. Heinlein wrote constantly. Robert Heinlein was arguably one of the biggest names in science fiction of the 20th century. Heinlein published 32 novels, 59 […]
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Announcement: Major Site Changes Coming June
I have decided not to continue hosting my website with WordPress.com and am moving over to WordPress.org and a hosting service. I know a lot of my readers found me through the Jetpack / WordPress Reader feature, and it looks like I can use that and add it on my site as a plug-in. What […]
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Which Fantasy my Genre? High Fantasy? Epic Fantasy?
Is it even fantasy at all? For me writing fantasy was by complete accident. Judging by what I read predominantly when I was growing up, I should be a science fiction writer. Especially the more speculative, contemporary sort of Science Fiction like Stargate and Jurassic Park. What happened instead was that I got into Terry […]
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Review of The Highly Sensitive Person – Get Ready to be Preached at
(This is a personal review of The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, by Elaine Aron PhD) A Mixed Bag The information in this book is no doubt correct. But along with the science we also get the author’s personal opinions and worldview. There is also a bit of pseudoscience mixed in with this science. So, […]
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Correspondences Across Personality Systems
This took a while and honestly I was expecting it to be a little more difficult than it was. In order to line each system up with the number five, all I did was include introversion and extroversion as independent factors for mbti, remove The Luminaries which are a little too broad anyway, and Big […]
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What do I do about Editing and Revision regarding Creative Writing?
I have been consistently writing creatively since 2017, so as of writing this it’s been 6 years. The helpful answer is that I find that once I’m already editing I actually enjoy it, even if I resist starting. So the answer is to just start, and worry about liking it after. The more difficult answer […]
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Recurrance in Storytelling
Here we go,From The Solune Prince, Draft 3. Chapter 1 Chloe jumped as the metal latch behind her clanged then stopped, dropping back into place. Whoever it was at the door paused and thought better than to walk in. Then a knock rang out through the heavy wood. “Speak,” She said, almost failing to hide […]
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Doing a Full Novel Rewrite
The novel I’m currently working on, The Solune Prince, has been in the works for over four years now. And so this summer, when I started getting a good hold of the ropes of publishing and self-publishing, I truly and finally realized how far the current state of the novel was from being clean and […]
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Treads beneath the Willow Trees
Ankle deep she treads beneath the willow treesFeet deep into water brown with mud and wine And now she turns to me her feet still pointed straightShe calls out in a tragic voice, but tells me that she’ll wait The voice is drenched in honey and I know she will be mineMy boots thrown off, […]
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Leo Tolstoy’s home in Moscow
The home of one of my favourite authors is now a place you can visit!
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It’s Finally Over And… (poem)
It’s finally over And I’m on my way home I would say it’s like the first time,Except that truly, it is not.‘Cause life is not a cliche, Rather it’s like back in those days when I worked in a place where I came home before shops closed And before the sun set and the work […]
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To Dig Myself out of a Writing and Outlining Hole
24 January 2023, 12 March 2023 My current approach to writing has gone through a handful of changes. Actually, really more like frustrating starts and stops. Right now, things are going alright, but early in the new year they were really going really not alright. Here are some of my own reflections during that time, […]
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Appeal to the Throne – Vignette B
Apart from the guard near the door—who Chloe recognized as not a guard but rather an Agent of the Solune—there was the Monarch, his Wife, and Natasha Glass Rhye; Chloe Rhye’s eldest sister. Lilllich was slightly taken aback by the size of the King, and it seemed to Chloe, maybe also the height of Natasha. […]
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Meeting – Vignette A
From The Solune Prince; most recent draft Alexandre, alone in her little college office and standing over one of the heavy tables, wrote in one of her notebooks. Frustrated, she ended up pushing her silverpoint pencil through the page as she wrote the next word. Fine. She dragged the stylus across until the paper caught […]
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Review of Lifelong Writing Habit (Book on Writing)
Welcome to the new year! Hopefully this review is in time for anyone whose resolution involves writing. I will keep this review short, just like the book itself. It didn’t take me long to realize that in Chris Fox’s Lifelong Writing Habit I had found something that I could grab a hold of and use. […]
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I Enjoyed “Sell or Be Sold” Far More than I was Expecting (Nonfiction Review)
This is Grant Cardone’s big book on selling. You might know Cardone as the 10x guy, or for his real estate business. Some people love him, some people hate him. But I’m not reviewing Cardone, I’m reviewing the information in his book, and how it’s delivered. Frankly, Cardone seems like a decent guy with his […]
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Drafting: Attempting a New First Chapter of TSP
Recently, I began working more seriously with my novels. At present, I am revising and preparing The Solune Prince for indie publication. This is taking me a bit more work than I expected, and the reason is that the first draft of Book 1 of The Solune Prince had some issues. Don’t get me wrong, […]