Last night I turned in my second short story assignment for the anthology workshop I’m taking – yay!!! It was a lot easier than the first assignment (no surfing in this one!), but it still was an awful lot of work. I came up with an idea right away, and I felt that it would…
Last night I finished one of the hardest stories I’ve written to date. It’s a really simple story, but it involves things I’m not familiar with, and this proved to be a real challenge. Normally I look at this type of situation as an opportunity to do research and learn new things, and it certainly…
I’ve written one before so you’d think this wouldn’t be a surprise, but wow. Writing a novel is way more work than a short story, or even a novella. It’s not just that it’s a longer work. You have to keep track of tons of details, like suppose you mention that your character is wearing…