Category: Writing
Writing Tracker – Week 2 (Jan. 7 – Jan. 13)
Writers write. That’s the bottom line. At the start of last week, I struggled to get fired up in my writing. Fiction always comes easiest to me, so I jumped into a story I’ve been...
Think Investments Over Goals
Last year, I had the idea to write a pair of ebooks. The ebooks were intended to supplement the blog, drive traffic to it, and expand my writing platform. It was a good goal. The...
Writing Tracker (Dec. 31 – Jan. 6)
Writers write. That’s the bottom line. At the start of 2018, I set a few concrete writing goals. As part of fulfilling those goals, I hope to publish my writing stats each week to 1)...
Goal-Setting in Writing
Starting Out From July 2013 through 2016, my primary writing goals were as follows: Maintain my blog by writing a new post every week. Write some fiction on the side. Pretty generic: I know. For...
Word Counts for Newbery Medal Winners
Everyone who writes children’s or YA lit wants to win a Newbery. That’s the pearl. But what’s the formula? Of course we know there isn’t one. Not exactly. And we also know we need to...
More freely, more fiercely
Journalists are not the enemy. Cartoonists are not the enemy. Satirists are not the enemy. Journalism – the freedom to listen, tell, and share – has become a dangerous profession. Last year saw scores of reporters...
Just over 30 Pieces of Amazing Journalism from 2014
In 2014 I kept a running tab of the best pieces of news journalism and editorial I came across. “Best” should not be taken to mean it necessarily represents my views, only that it is...
What I Read in 2014
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the...
“Winning the internet” and how to resent much of the new online universe
Imagine if I’d elected as the tagline for this post: “If you don’t read this you’re probably wasting your life.” You’d likely think I was being an overdramatic jerk, but you might click on it...
Reflections after one year of writing on the internet
This week marks my blog’s one-year anniversary! After you’ve done anything for a year, you learn a thing or two about the right ways and the wrong ways of going about it. Before anything, I...