#writingcraft: Perceptive Anguish

It was about six months ago when I started having grave doubts about my abilities as a writer. Before that time, I thought I had a fleeting shot at getting a book published. Yet, in spite of the distress I felt every time I sat at my desk, I continued to write my blog posts …

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#weekendcoffeeshare: Being a Writer is More?

The Daily Post sponsors the #weekendcoffeeshare. If this is something you’d like to do, whether it be weekly like it’s supposed to be or the way I do it, once a month. You can get the lowdown about it at the link above. In the past, I have written this post dialogue style as if …

Maybe Self-Doubt isn’t Bad

As of late, I’ve been coming across hoards of articles about how we should feel about ourselves. Writers are telling me in their blog posts about how to somehow feel marvelous when I’m writing, no matter where I am in my WiP, no matter what obstacles I’m facing. Feel-good web sites are giving me advice …

Can You Pick Your Writing Voice?

I plunged into my weighty writing excursion in 2013. I’ve read article after article about all that’s entailed to hopefully writing a book with some sort of success. One category of information pieces I came across early in my search for knowledge was centered around the writing voice. Several articles were advocating how to find, …

The Prestige of the Writer

Writers are the same as everyone else. Some of us are wall flowers; others are attention mongers; and there are, of course, the ones in between. Some are straight-laced; others are totally off the wall; and, then like the majority of any group, there are the ones who arise to the occasion as needed. I’ve …

Reluctance to Grasp

In October of last year, 2015, I wrote a post that discussed the topic, Reciprocating Follows. However, I neglected to include any details as to why I pass by some of the blogs of my followers at WordPress.Com. I remember I considered a paragraph or two on these particulars, but decided it may appear a …

Details Don’t Work

How much detail should go into the preliminary work of a story? As profound and desirable as it may be, the way Jessica Fletcher, the main character in Murder She Wrote, could whip out her manuscripts on a word processor just is not going to happen in the world outside of the “boob tube”. Diversely, …

I’m Not Inspired

As a "want-a-be"  writer, I don’t have the luxury of reflecting about the novels I’ve written to get me out of a slump. This is fact and has nothing to do with the emotionally tart shaft I find myself in. True, I probably shouldn’t call myself a "want-a-be" because, after all, I do scribble in …

23 Signs You're Secretly An Introvert

This is my very first time doing a re-blog. I didn't realize it would be so easy. Anyway, I belong to a service site called Pearltree where you can gather sites and pages that you believe are going to be helpful somewhere along the line. This is one of the pages another member found that …

Nah! To the NaNo Challenge

I know that I'm the umpteenth person to write about what is about to start tomorrow, NaNoWriM. Still, most of what I've read thus far are articles promoting this event. I, on the other hand, am discouraging it. ∴ Most people who are writing and are on the Internet have read somewhere about the National …

How Do They Do It? How is It Done?

It wasn’t until I began to read each and every day that I started thinking seriously about writing. Once I decided that I want to do something substantial with my writing, I began to look at the material I was reading in a different perspective. No, I didn’t start looking for errors per se, although …

The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Effect

Again, I've missed writing a post during the weekend. Admittedly, some of the reason is due to my reluctance to write the rest of It Was My Black Cloud. Still, there is another reason; I’m at a place in my writing that's become troublesome. It’s sticky and gooey. It’s reminds me of picking up a …