fiction

  • Side Quests and Coffee

    Side Quests and Coffee

    While Table Six is still my number one big goal, I need a little something to pump up the motivation and excitement level a smidge. That internal editor is working nonstop to go back and erase and rewrite all of chapter one that I’ve written and I need her to cut the shit, so I’ve

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  • Plotting Vs. Pantsing

    Plotting Vs. Pantsing

    I’ve always been a pantser. A story will come along and if it’s a short story, I’ll sit there and write the entire thing down and watch as it bends and twists into whatever it’s going to be. I’m usually quite surprised at the end. But a novel is a whole different beast and I

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  • Snack Attack

    Snack Attack

    I’m sitting here trying to put words to a story on pause in my mind, so I’m scrolling through pictures to give it a jump, but found this instead. GISHWHES was the best. I always left it so hyped up and exhausted, but the inspiration would be flow among the wake of that creative storm.

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  • Blocked

    Blocked

    So, I had been working on a gothic novel for my graduate thesis, and it got put away for a while. At first, I thought maybe it was from the burnout. I had worked on this thing for so long, thought about it constantly, and ended up with the first five chapters completely polished, topped

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