This is my 100th day of writing a blog a day and posting at Medium. My goal is to do this for a whole year. It's a challenge set to get me writing every day again, and also an experiment in honing my "writing voice" into something more unique than I felt it has been....
I've written over five published books and 1 million words of fanfiction by doing everything "wrong". I wrote in another post that my writing process is basically a disorganized, sloppy mess. For instance, I come up with titles for stories first. As an example, many...
Last night was Productivity Thursday with my friend Kim McShane. She's in the preparatory stages of launching a business, and I'm at the point where I'm thinking about plot and characters for my next "Big Writing Project". I mean, I always have about...five?...books...
People don't believe me, but I always come with the titles and character names FIRST. As example and proof of this, this morning I thought: I want to write a "Witch's Cycle" fantasy trilogy that's also comedic, named, in order, "Maiden", "Mother", "Crone". The lead...
HOW many words is that???? A post by a friend made me refer back to one of my favorite lists for writers: Word Count for Famous Novels (organized). I first stumbled across it clipped as a tumblr post, but the link is to the original 2011 blog post. I was taught young...
I love Medium but I trust no one I’ve been through too many blog migrations to believe that any service/product is going to be around forever, or be free forever, or be uncensored forever. One reason I host my own blog (www.kimboosan.net) is so I have my content under...
How about “20 Great Ideas for Blog Posts for When You Can’t Think of Anything to Write About” Oh, the burning irony of snarky friends. Thanks, SuzanneC, thanks. Just for that, I’m going fill this prompt with a list. A REAL LIST. You asked for it…literally… night vs....
“When are we who we are?” [paraphrased] DawnP left this particularly interesting prompt for me: Don’t know if you are like this, but it’s easier to be in a crowd of people you don’t know, with maybe one or two friends, than a crowd of people you’ve met a few times and...
This is a post about writing, and not writing, and (sometimes) doing things. I was talking to my friend Kim McShane tonight at dinner about writing and jobs. Neither of us is particularly looking for a new day!job — we both have found pretty good positions that allow...