Some days, when it comes to writing, I feel like I'm rocking a mullet. "Say what?!" you cry. "Nobody rocks a mullet." I kinda think Kiefer did, in The Lost Boys. But otherwise, you're right. Nobody rocks a mullet. But stay with me for a minute....
Writing 101
It creeps!
Are you as fascinated with everybody's CREEPS as I am? Who knew we all had so many in our lives? It's no secret that I have a bit of an obsession with creeps. You can't really write a thriller without one (or maybe you can, but I can't think of a thriller – book or...
What a book stuck to a wall looks like
See those spaces in column two? Those spaces are what I'm working on. Sometimes it helps to see the story structure visually. How do you revise?
Dead bodies, prisons, and revisions: just your average Monday
I don't know about you, but I don't do any research at all during a first draft. I'm very single-minded in the early stages of a book, and my focus is on getting the story down as quickly as possible before I lose my mojo. So I pretty much write all my first drafts in...