Regardless of the years of education I’ve had within the subject of creative writing, I didn’t learn the finer points of storytelling. I know, of course, a character should have his or her own personality, flaws, traits, dreams, and whatever else I can’t think of at the moment. I also know that a good story …
The Infliction of the Convenience
[This post is a result of a prompt from Today’s Author. I’m using it to further my pursuit in raising my writing skills. See what I worked on last week, Autumn Storm. This time, I’m trying to avoid the pitfalls of my inexperience showing up in neon lights. This means dodging words and sentence style …
Impeding the Writing
The other day I read a post discussing the time needed to write a book, the time available to write one, the time that probably should be used to finish a story of approximately 85,000 words in all. To my astonishment, it lacked many details that going into the management of time needed to write …
Candor
From what I’ve experience so far in this life, there are few people who have to struggle with candor. Most people go through their daily routines telling ‘little white lies’ to spare themselves embarrassment and prevent others from being hurt unnecessarily. And this strategy works in most instances. I don’t find fault with this. This …
Autumn Storm
[I want desperately to be skilled at painting pictures with words. Studying what I’ve written for the first draft of my first-ever book, I’m acutely aware of how inept my writing really is. I still want to write my story, but I need to develop my abilities at this craft before I get much further …
A Scripted Maze 