Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
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 [...]
The Solitariness of Writing
I have a confession – I never really saw the point in involving anyone else in my writing process, I just didn’t get it. I was happy to sit down and work in a world of my own imagining. I read a good deal from published authors and found just enough authors that didn’t have [...]
Where Journal Meets Type-A
This is my journal, it’s in my purse or on my person, pretty much at all times. (At San Diego Comic Con, I don’t carry a purse, but it’s in my backpack.) I don’t think I journal the way “normal people” do – it’s not a diary, it’s a dream receptacle. No really, it is [...]