

Pardon me for yelling.

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This (Un)Professional Writing Blog

“Be yourself.”


And don’t get me wrong, it’s all good advice.


Current Bookshelf

I get fidgety when I’m not writing anything.

And right now I have nothing to write. Don’t get me wrong—I’m working on multiple projects right now. But one of them is Book #3 in The Reinhold Chronicles, and that mammoth of a draft needs words to be cut, not added. I also have a super exciting concept for my next novel after the Reinhold books, but that’s just an outline—and most of it’s still just a bunch of junk rolling around in my brain.

So, yeah, I haven’t been using much more than the backspace key lately. Is this sentence absolutely necessary? How about this dialogue tag? Why say “sat down” when you could just say “sat”? Why have her sit at all when she’s just going to stand a few lines down? Really, really, deliciously exciting work. It’s necessary (Book #3 is currently 646 pages) but fun, it is not.

I realized that I’m filling the writing hole with reading—a lot of it.  Continue reading “Current Bookshelf”