Archive for September, 2011
Being a Reader
I’ve heard it a thousand times in different articles and interviews with Authors I admire, if you want to write you have to steep yourself in the written word. I’ve taken these words very much to heart and I read, all the time. In fact it’s a joke amongst friends and family that it is [...]
Internet Black Out
I love to day dream about what my life would be like if I could write full time. I have enough of a Type-A personality that I like to think about how I would structure my day – still waking up early (as I am a morning person) answering email and tweets over breakfast and [...]
Where do Ideas Come From?
It’s always interesting to me that whenever I am sitting in the audience of a book panel, or listening to a podcast, someone inevitably gets up and asks the author – “where do you get your ideas?” This is always fascinating to me. Neil Gaiman once answered that question with this gem: “You get ideas [...]
Outlines have I abandoned
I am not an outliner, to be fair – I TRY to outline, but instead my outlines hit a wall and explode. I’ve always been this way, in fact in college I used to write the paper first so that I would have an outline to turn in! (Completely backwards I know.) I’ve always considered [...]