When facing a crisis of faith, I guess it could help to start with what you know and still believe, little though that may be.
Archive of posts filed under the writing category.
Creative Tension
It’s easy, once I’ve started a project, to get discouraged when I figure out how much work it will actually take to complete. This goes for writing novels, creating games, and any other similarly large tasks.
+1 Brandon Sanderson Fan
Just finished reading the Mistborn trilogy, and I quite enjoyed it. Sanderson is a very talented writer. I’m definitely going to read Warbreaker and the new standalone Mistborn novel (The Alloy of Law) which is coming out this year. I think I’ll probably even start his new 10-part series, The Stormlight Archive, once he’s gotten [...]
Pulled my nose out of the book just long enough to write this half-assed post.
I have been reading the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I’m about three fourths of the way through the second book now. I’m enjoying them.
Status Report
I often think it would be cool to chronicle my projects here, since I enjoy reading about such things elsewhere, but then I drop the idea because I have a tendency to stall out on my projects. But I really would like to make progress on and complete something, so perhaps that thought should change.
You might just get 3 after all, David.
So the DM, after reading the previous post, thought the part about how we believed the kids was interesting because he didn’t think it’d be figured out so quickly.
Breach of Unconfidence
I have the itch to be elsewhere, in a story, and deep down I know it is to be in a story of my own creation, rather than that of another. I have been reading to quell the pang, but I know it has only been putting off what I really need to be doing: [...]
Finding My Key
On Sunday I got a reading from Robert Caruso, who is very good at what he does. The bulk of it was concerned with how to get myself to write, as I know I should be doing, and he told me a lot of very helpful things which should have been obvious before he pointed [...]
Writer’s Guild Strike News
The effects of Writer’s Guild of America’s strike are now becoming apparent. And now the WGA is beginning to sign interim deals with individual companies aside from the deal sought from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Which may or may not be a good idea.
