by admin | Jul 24, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
By now, we all know how to stroke our muse into a frothy creative fervor. But how do we stifle it? What if we want to stomp on it, quiet it, and otherwise murder it? Not all of us have access to this information. Especially productive people probably don’t even...
by admin | May 15, 2015 | On Writing
I’m knee-deep in revisions on my 2nd contracted novel, and I’m in the “pre-editing” stage. This is where I go through my manuscript and search out a wide variety of phrases that need to be changed, or eliminated altogether. Once this is done,...
by admin | Apr 24, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
On 1 May, Breathless Press will be closing following a year of declining sales. This decision has not been an easy one to make and has not been made lightly. We have always put our authors first and so we have chosen to close now, on our own terms, while we are still...
by admin | Mar 20, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
I’m not a big book reviewer – in fact, this is the first and perhaps last review you’ll see on this blog. But a recent read hit very close to my romance core, so hard that I felt compelled to shout my thoughts into the blogosphere. I found Chetan Bhagat’s “Half...
by admin | Jan 20, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
I won’t lie, I’ve hashtagged #AmWriting when I was doing everything BUT. Most times, it starts as an earnest attempt to begin writing that eventually gets hijacked by any number of unrelated activities. Let’s be real, the moment we sit down to write...
by admin | Jan 16, 2015 | Miscellaneous Thoughts, On Writing
I’m willing to bet that most of you reading right now, much like me, have a problem I like to call “Overloaded Project Syndrome”. While this is a preferable disease to many others in the world, it is still debilitating and difficult to live with. And what it...
