I’ve raved before about my views on publishing, and particularly self-published work. The bottom line of my past ranting is that those who are good are being swamped and disadvantaged by the vocal majority—who are simply poor writers and poorly supported from a polished end product point of view. What’s more, there is no easily [...]
I recommend my Page “Julian’s Bible” on Facebook: It should be read from the bottom upwards. It is quite deep. It is an entirely original idea. Totally different from any other sort of religion. If you consider science-fiction combined with a polytheist religion you are a quarter of the way there. I assure you that [...]
How many times have you been confronted by the above question during your lifetime? I was reading an article posted by Jay Lake on this very subject earlier today in relation to those of us who are writers. Whenever you answer by telling the usually disinterested questioner you are a writer, either their eyes glaze [...]
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in this learning curve called writing. One of the biggest was Point Of View, a fact that one editor pointed out in a detailed rejection letter. In my newbie attempts to educate my readers on what EVERYONE was thinking, I had no less than 3 POV’s in one short [...]
If you literary leanings are towards writing full-time, you have to become totally obsessive with each project. You have no other choice, if you want it to work on all levels. At this moment in time, my mind is completely given over to writing an anthology of sequential short stories for the five fictional characters [...]
I hate cheating. I hate songs about cheaters. – Secret Lovers, As We Lay, any song that has to do with someone indulging in sexual pleasures with someone they ain’t got no business laying up with just makes me shake my head in disgust (although I’ll admit that musically, Me and Mrs. Jones is a [...]
Overview: Word software programs, such as Microsoft Word, provide a remarkable resource for writers wishing to improve the syntactical structure of their prose. For example, it incorporates basic grammar instruction for sentence organization, accompanied by a dictionary/thesaurus to improve spelling, vocabulary, and overall literacy, which may significantly enhance writing mechanics with persistent practice. Improve Writing Step [...]
As a poet, I look at beginnings and endings with metaphors. Enjoy my poem below… Polliwogs & Pain It’s nice to think of tears… like polliwogs swimming around excitedly ready to evolve, It’s nice to think of sorrow as water, all those tears escaping where swelling pain had been, It’s nice to think our sorrow [...]
Whether you publish your book in hard back, paperback, or in one of the many eBook formats currently available, unless you take more care, it won’t be long before you become ignored as a writer, or worse, totally forgotten. What do I mean by this? It’s simple, so simple in fact that I’m surprised so [...]
Can a work of fiction ever have real validity in dealing with the weightier issues lurking in the dark recesses of the human animal? I asked myself that when I was challenged to ‘justify’ some of the real-life horrors that feature in my debut crime fiction novel ‘BiteMarks‘ – an excerpt of which features prominently on [...]
