Procrastination

I wasn’t going to open with a personal story, but what the hell. If I try hard enough, eventually I’ll be able to relate everything in my life to my own personal philosphies about writing. About four months ago, I saw a shrink. Sorry…mental health...

Learning and maturing

I have a friend stationed overseas in Germany (redundant, I suppose). He’s Air Force, and he’s an interesting guy. He has some notions about life and what-not that are familiar to me because I had similar ones about 10 years ago. Conincidentally enough,...

Thriving, motivation, and solid feedback

Back again to why I write, but along a different tangent this time. I belong to a couple of online critique groups. They’re not the first I’ve belonged to, I even joined a couple before I ever knew what writing.com was. They are the only two I’ve...

Before I forget

I meant to do this yesterday, and then had a totally different idea for blogging instead. I could have saved said idea in draft mode, and published this one yesterday and that one today, but I totally forgot about this one until now.Mireyah tagged me…something...

In the End…

YA Highway has posed a question, and I–being in a mood to put off the other work I should be doing–have decided I want to answer ^_^. The question: If you could rewrite the ending of any book, how would you rewrite it and why?One of their examples, and...

Inspiration and Formula

A few years back, a friend loaned me a copy of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, telling me that the book was different than the movie. The book was good, and written in a voice that was new and amazing to me. So when I saw Diary on the discount shelf at B&N, I had...