If something is bouncing off a forearm, that would be more like a bunt. The car would have to be propelled by a swinging forearm to come off like...
My favorite quote, or at least the one I've told others the most is, from Hemingway: "The test of any story is how very good the stuff that you,...
Outline novels, pants stories (although after a third I can usually see the other two thirds).
What if a character just kept a vein open with an IV line of sorts and poured in what was necessary when needed, the works covered by a long...
Those are good strategies. I find that short stories suck up a lot of time from novels, so now I reward myself with them: finishing outlining a...
Erase and start over. At the very least go back to where you don't hate what you've written and start afresh from there. Not revising or...
I've only done it once so a year or 18 months till I'm done. I'm shooting for 9 months for at least a first draft of DT. Of course this week was a...
Keep at it. I came here today just to see where you are. To share, I'm on the third outline of the sequel to Dragon Round, The Dragon Tower (I...
I kind of work it back and forth: What I write at night I try to get to a general place I like, then the next morning I start by going through,...
Hemingway's best advice: Have a daily goal. Once you reach it, you get to go fishing. If that's at 10am, great!. If it's at 6pm, damn.
Next Friday? The world could end on Thursday. Start today. Just a line to tide you over. Or a paragraph to get the juices flowing. Use Google...
Boy, I hope so. So should Ernest Cline. Armada is basically a half-dozen movie scripts chopped up and reassembled. Everyone speaks in movie and tv...
I'd forgotten about the Piasa. And that mark is right where I need it. Thanks!
Wendigos have been used many times. My favorite ABC-TV movie as a kid was The Manitou. Currently I'm outline a book/series on the Dragons of...
