Posted in Creativity, Writing, tagged creative writing, Fallen Cloud Saga, Ploughman Chronicles, the writing life, writing a novel, writing novels on 27 Apr 2017| Leave a Comment »
Ever since publishing my last post, in which I stated publicly that I was gearing up to break my four-year-long novel-writing dormancy, I’ve been in a dark blue funk.
It took me a while to figure out why. Well, to be honest, I didn’t figure it out. A fellow writer (Todd Baker: grillmaster, metalhead, and memoirist par excellence) commented on my post, and his reflections shed light on my own internal strife.
I was suffering from “The Dread.” (more…)
Posted in Writing, tagged apprentice writer, creative writing, Fallen Cloud Saga, novel writing, publishing, the joy of writing, Writing, writing a novel, writing deadlines, writing techniques on 15 Aug 2013| Leave a Comment »
A reader’s question on a recent post made me think a bit.
Is writing an escape from my day job, or is my day job an escape from writing?
At first thought I said, “Why, that’s easy!” but then I thought again.
My writing “career” has had three distinct phases, so far:
In none of these was writing my “day job.” I’m a software developer by vocation; that’s my monkey-boy day-job, and it is whence my main income has always come.
(Yes, I just used “whence” in a sentence…don’t freak out. You did fine the other day when I used “agley,” didn’t you?)
But has writing always been an escape from the day job? Have I always looked forward to the task of writing? Has writing always brought me joy, made me happy? (more…)
Unraveling Time
Desert Wind
Ploughman's Son
Ploughman King
The Year the Cloud Fell
The Spirit of Thunder
Shadow of the Storm
The Cry of the Wind
Beneath a Wounded Sky
Cryptogenesis: A Memoir
Kurt R.A. Giambastiani 