You bet your ass, I do. ...it's changed a bit over time, though... When I was a younger writer, I wrote everyone as a drama. When I read my old stories, I always feel like people are being overly everything. (Notice what I said there? They're people to me, not characters.) But in the last few years, my characters have found their depth...

...is that if I start an entry without finishing it, it's never getting published... All of that is weird, though, because I'm normally a big fan of the editing process... which brings me to today's topic: editing. [yes, I know -- this isn't directly related to the #100daysofwriting prompts. sue me... actually, please don't; I don't th...

Earlier today, I was lamenting the fact that I didn't have much to say about building worlds (the theme of #100daysofwriting, day 5). I expressed this to my partner earlier, who refuted it in a way that I thought was rather brilliant... and which has led me to conclude that I build worlds without even meaning to. By way of illustration...

Today's #100daysofwriting prompt has to do with a thought-tool for characters: goal, motivation, and conflict. ...and that is all well and dandy, but I'm not working on anything right now -- at least, not in earnest -- and that's what I'd like to talk about instead. In terms of statistics, I already mentioned the monumental first-year ...

...or characterisation, depending where you're from... [As it so happens, this answers the question of 'how did you get started in writing', which is the first of the 100-days-of-writing questions... I'm not forcing myself to conform to that, but still -- it's nice when things line up.] -- Anyway... I was asked to explain the way I cho...

I have to admit that this whole post could be construed as copying... my partner told me they were going to take on the 100-days-of-writing-about-writing thing from tumblr, in the form of their own blog, and here I am... but if you can't emulate the people you love most, I think you might be doing it wrong. Preamble aside, here am I, t...