I originally considered this short story, which has been gestating for a long time, as a full length novel. After messing around with it for a while and realizing there’d have to be a lot more meat on the bone than my brain could come...
Why the Shakespearean butt joke? Because it makes me laugh and because, when confronted with the sheer amount of work ahead of me, I need a chuckle at the moment. I finished a novel recently. I had to fight kind of hard to get this one...
Clocking in at nearly 88,000 words, I finished the first draft of my (hopefully) next novel today. It was a long time coming.I wrote a little while ago about a novel that didn’t get published. That might change (fingers crossed) but after it didn’t work...
I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but you are creative. I don’t know you, obviously. Maybe you are a “to do” list type of person (my kind of people). Maybe you are an engineer. Maybe messiness is a sign of functionality and...
I just had a book rejected today. Not a short story. A book. Eight-eight thousand words worth of book. My agent (who does a fantastic job and who I enjoy working with) tried and tried, but no takers. A whole book, going nowhere (I must add the...