Having just sent the final round of edits off to the formatter I can confidently say that my new book, Rune’s Folly, the first in the…
Writing
A post in which I answer the question, “Garen, are you doing any writing lately?”
January 20, 2017I’m always super grateful when people ask me how my writing is going. And that’s not just a hollow platitude. I seriously do appreciate it. Here’s…
So I’ve been wanting to write a poem for a while now. It’s one form of the written word that I haven’t attempted since probably junior…
This is it. Number 52 of 52 in my year-long quest to write a post every week for Scriven by Garen. I did it, and to…
Writing
Sequel second-guessing, review wrangling, and other alliterative authorial adversities.
December 11, 2015There’s a yellow notebook upstairs sitting on my nightstand. It has a bunch of scribbles in it, the beginnings of an outline for the follow-up to…
These are the first words I’ve written in days. There is something called NaNoWriMo happening right now. I think I’m supposed to be writing a novel…
As promised, this week’s blog post is brief. The end of week one of NaNoWriMo is drawing near and I am behind schedule. I had hoped…
Each year a growing number of writerly weirdos decides to attempt 50,000 words in 30 days. That’s about 1,666 words a day. In 2013, the last time…
It’s been exactly one month since On the Verge went live on Amazon. Sales started off well (thanks, friends and family!), and then steadily tapered off,…
It’s been a long road. Almost two years have passed since I began On the Verge, and yesterday it became available on Amazon for the first…
I am so in love with On the Verge’s cover. Every time I look at it I’m filled with warm fuzzies. The credit goes to my…
I’m in the midst of a last mad dash to clean up and polish everything I possibly can before I call it a day on this…
It’s been over two months since I last posted an update about the novel. Exciting things are happening, and I feel the need to share. First…
I’m serious. Where’s my coffee? This week’s post marks the halfway point of the year commitment I made to Scriven by Garen. I have been writing…
I’ve been feeling a bit low these past couple of days. It’s a funk I get into every now and then when things aren’t going how…
I almost didn’t write a post this week. My manuscript needs my attention now, and it’s hard to find time to write. When I do scrounge…
This is going to be a short post. The reason: I have a lot of work to do. Why do I have a lot of work…
Perhaps the most surprising thing I’ve learned about this writing a novel thing is that the actual creative act of stringing nearly 90,000 words together into…
Some days on this writing journey of mine (okay, most days) I feel like a bit of a faker. There are certain professions when the transition…
“I’ve discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his judgment and to say in heart of hearts,…