Yesterday, I found a quote via Tayari Jones with her Logical Links blog post.
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
It’s a quote only a novelist would love. From Cormac McCarthy, author of the dystopian novel, The Road.
The quote [...]
Since I work in software technology at the day job, I tend to use my left-side of the brain a lot and it bleeds into my writing.
I’m a plotter and an outliner. I give props to other writers who can just start writing and let the story lead them to where it needs to [...]
So if you’ve been reading my blog, you know that I had what I like to call a “moment” with this draft and current revision round.
But I had a breakthrough in brainstorming and have been very productive. I’m still revising my Act 1 scenes, but I’m also looking ahead to what’s in store for me [...]
This has been an interesting few days. I could blame it on a host of different things but I don’t want to bore you with those details.
But things were looking up. The day job is finally getting back to normal and I’ll have more to time dedicate to this revision. I’m doing great with my [...]
Looks like we finally got some Fall color in Atlanta. I took this snapshot from my office window at the day job.
The one thing that I love about the Atlanta skyline is that it’s surrounded by an ocean of trees, which can be very beautiful at times such as this.
Hope that you’re enjoying your [...]
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