History: Shooting for the Stars and Falling Short (Temporarily) Years ago, after being let go of from AOL, Andy used the money he earned from selling off his AOL stock options to take 3 years off to write. He wrote two books, the second of which he attempted to get published but was unsuccessful. Normally seen…
Tag: Writing
Top 10 Insights to Help Set Up a Writing Habit
The secret to success is in the habits you possess. One vital thing that sets successful writers apart from the ones that never make it are their habits. Their ability to come back to their work day after day, regardless of zombie apocalypses and new episodes of Orange is the New Black. Chris Fox correctly identifies…
How to Realign Yourself When You’ve Lost Your Way
I’ve been running on a high recently. I have managed to maintain a positive attitude despite not having a job, not knowing whether I was on the right career path and wrestling with the decision of whether or not I should go back to school to obtain a designation for said career I am on…
Writing Method: Making a Mess by Me :)
The writing methods summarized in this series were actually in preparation for this entry. Since my method is a concoction of the methods previously mentioned, you might find it useful to refer to them first: Part 1: Writing Method: Snowflake by Randy Ingermanson (Printable Summaries) Part 2: Writing Method: 7-Point System by Dan Wells (Printable Summaries) Part 3: Writing Method: Writing…
Writing Method: Writing into the Dark (Pantsers) by Dean Wesley Smith
Edit: Due to some questions I had, major edits to this entry were made on Feb 27, 2018, which are indicated in teal. If a heading is found in this color, its entire corresponding section has been added. There are numerous books out there on writing from a plotter’s perspective. So I thought, for fun, why not look at…
Cause & Effect
Do you ever feel like there’s words floating around your head and you need to just get them out, no editing, no thinking, nothing. Just blurt out everything in your head? Well that’s how I feel today, so I’m sorry for the grossly unedited piece of work below. (Though I did go back after the fact…
Muffling the Pesky Perfectionist in Your Head
Two ways you can combat perfectionist tendencies.
