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Writers: Who influences you?
Don't miss the free stuff...but don't let me influence you unduly.
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San Andreas, The Rock, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Bad Reviews
The Writer's Five Stages of Grief after a Bad Review:
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How to keep moving forward.
My wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed, deals with a lot of sad, difficult and traumatic situations in her noble work. She helps a lot of people but it’s not easy. To combat the downside, she keeps what she...
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The Joy of the Staying the Hell Home
Most writers I know are trying to get out of their day jobs so they can write and do nothing but write. I’m in a bit of a different situation. I have four jobs. My wife, AKA She Who Must Be Obeyed, has...
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The Curse of the Literary Snob
Recently I listened to mega-successful author Paulo Coelho on the podcast On Being. I recommend the podcast when you need calming voices discussing big questions. The interview made me think about how...
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Writers: On Confidence
I just listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast with designer Debbie Millman. Good Q&A about designing our lives. One of the takeaways for me was about confidence. Ms. Millman interviewed many successful...
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Multiple Streams of Income for Writers
I just watched The Martian again. Loved the book by Andy Weir, too. It’s still the best audiobook I’ve ever heard. The message at the end of the movie (minor spoiler alert) is that things are going to...
View ArticleShould you quit the day job? Writing and finding focus.
I used to work as a Virtual Assistant off and on for the graphic designer, Kit Foster. I left his company to focus on writing. Sadly, apart from liking a Facebook post or two, I haven’t had any contact...
View ArticleWriters, Writing and Finding Our Way
I didn’t publish for a year and a half. I was always writing but I’d lost my way. Things got grim for a long time before I found the way out of my storm. A side hustle went away. The demands of an...
View ArticleDownsizing: A dire warning for writers
I finally saw Downsizing, a (black?) (comedic?) sci-fi movie with Matt Damon on Netflix. Anyone who writes should see it. It’s a clinic in how a story can go terribly awry. There are so many approaches...
View ArticleBooks as Milestones of Life
I associate certain books with my development as a person. I wonder if you feel the same.
View ArticleForget 2018. Write more books in 2019.
(This is the cover for my next thriller. It’s coming out next week. Excited yet? Me, too! And now, on with the show.) As the last hour of 2018 winds down, here are my offerings to writers to start off...
View ArticleWriting: Pet Peeves
The following post appeared on my Facebook fan page. Thought it might be of interest here, too. Last night I told you I didn’t care for characters doing dumb things to create artificial drama in a...
View ArticleDeciding to Jump
Circumstances are stressful enough without putting more stress on yourself.
View ArticleNot Writing but Coping
We want to accomplish great things, but what happens when we don’t want to do a thing? Managing energy is one key to productivity and energy doesn’t come from an infinite supply. Do you ever stop in...
View ArticleHelp for the Anxious Writer
If your book idea feels thin at first, consider that Ice Road Truckers barreled on for 11 seasons and found an audience. If you’ve got a grand idea for a novel, but it’s not springing onto the page...
View ArticleA Warning for Writers
I’ve used Google Docs to work with editors and beta readers for most of my books. Not anymore. In addition to working as a suspense novelist since 2011, sometimes I take on book doctoring projects. I’m...
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