I have always had an attraction to writing, as my blog entries over a number of years clearly indicate. The act of transferring an abstract concept or idea, or creating a picture in the mind of the reader is something I find incredibly powerful.
Reading and reviewing work by other authors is one of two key skills involved in becoming a better writer. Over at Unigon Plane, we focus on reading and reviewing independent authors. This is enjoyable as we get to read interesting books that we may not have otherwise come across, and we promote independent authors who may be able to find a readership.
The second key skill to becoming a good writer is simply to write. I exercise this skill to some extent by writing blog entries here and reviews over at Unigon Plane. However, these are the artistic equivalent of a quick sketch. The skill is not required to be as developed as for constructing a narrative, and doesn’t impose the same patience and “writing stamina”.
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The first anniversary of “The Map in the Fortune Cookie”
I can’t believe that a year has gone by since I released my very first book, “The Map in the Fortune Cookie!” For as long as I remember, I always wanted to write. I never thought I could, so I never did. But one day, about eighteen months ago, I decided that I would try.…
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Week 8: Story Tweet by Tweet
I can safely say that the last few weeks haven’t been my best for consistency. I went through a period of writer’s block, then a week of frenetic activity. Unfortunately, I found myself completely drained after that week of writing three chapters and made very little progress this past week. There is a lesson here…
Week 7: Story Tweet by Tweet
Wow, what a difference between this week and last week! Last week I was stuck in a bout of writer’s block, when I was completely stuck in situ, wrestling with a plot point of the story. This week, I have charged ahead and completed three whole chapters. You read that correctly; THREE WHOLE CHAPTERS! “The…
Week 6 – Story Tweet by Tweet
This last week has been an interesting one with my #TwitterFiction project and in some ways a challenging one. For the first time since I started working on it, I found myself stuck. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what to write, it was more of a case that I wasn’t sure how to write…
Week 5 – Story Tweet by Tweet
Thanks to school holidays and a healthy dose of busy, this week’s update is later than intended, but as they say in the classics, better late than never! Last week, we finished Chapter 5 of our story and headed into Chapter 6. We ticked over 9,000 words so far and we are starting to get…
Week 4 – Story Tweet by Tweet
It’s nearly a month now since I started the #TwitterFiction project, writing a story on Twitter one tweet at a time. I am very pleased to say that it’s going very well. Chapter 4 was finished earlier in the week, and we are right into the meat of the story now. I am very glad…