Dean Wesley Smith has been a writer for over thirty years. He has written a large number of short stories, some novels, and was a writers of Star Wars novels. His wife is also a respected writer. Smith has a blog in which he gives advice to us in the writing trenches, trying to figure …
Good morning readers. If any of you have time, would you click on over to this thread at Amazon for my book Doctor Luke’s Assistant. This was the one negative review (so far) of the book, a 2-star review. Actually, it wasn’t all that negative. I thought it was a good review. The reviewer modified his/her …
Sometime this week, they say by Wednesday March 28, I will receive the URI alumni magazine, Quad Angles. In it will be a short, 300 word profile of me. I sent in a notice of what I’m doing nowadays, including my writing on the side and having published Documenting America. I intended for this to …
Today on her blog, literary agent Rachelle Gardner posted the elements of a book proposal, at least how their agency wants to see them. While different agencies vary slightly, the elements Rachelle posted are pretty much universal. Every agent wants to see this information in a proposal before they will consider your book or send …
If I’m a writer, I have to write something. A good rule would be “Do something writing-related every day.” I pretty much follow that, though of course some days are more productive than others. Yesterday, for example, on my writing “diary” sheet—which is a table of days of the month across and writing items down, …
Two different writers sites/groups that I visit on the Internet asked that question this week. Chip MacGregor, in his blog post on Wednesday, answered the question “Why do I write?” And The Writers View 2, in their Thursday question, asked us to answer, in a sentence, the question, “What is your motivation for writing?” Interesting …
My writing at Suite101.com has, as I feared, taken up most of my creative writing time since I began writing for the site in late June. I’m up to 53 articles posted. My revenue is abysmal. So far I’ve earned $19.00 for about 43,000 words. Of course, since this is a revenue sharing site, if …
Well, last night once again I didn’t feel like writing. I spent a little more time in Father Daughter Day, finding most of the tweaks I had wanted to make and maybe an extra one or two. I read a couple of writing blogs I follow. But otherwise I just read and did crosswords and …
Back from the funeral, no major household projects going on, reasonable workload at the office, no upcoming trip to prepare for, the checkbook mostly up to date, household finances needing only 30 minutes to bring them up to date. I should be writing. But I’m not. Yesterday I posted one of my older poems for …
An Arrow Through the Air
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