Category: Writing Process
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Wide-Scale Writing
As a writer, I’m a big proponent of wide-scale writing, across genres, for different situations, with different people. For me, it’s challenging and interesting to have the proverbial fire full of various hot irons. With my play production coming to an end last weekend, I took a broad look at the various items I’m currently…
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Writing Tips: How to Write a Novel.
This post is not about how to write a novel because there’s only one way to write a novel and that’s by stringing together more than 50,000 words into a coherent story. That’s it. You need more words. Get to it. Connect them. Yeah, you wrote a novel. I realize that the above description may…
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A Break from Work to Work
I’m fortunate to be staring down the beginning of nine days off of school. I am a teacher, and I enjoy teaching immensely. But I also enjoy my break times because that means I can concentrate on my other work: my writing endeavors. Here’s what’s on-tap for the coming week: I plan on finishing my…
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See a Play: Write a Play
On September 24, I saw a terrific rendition of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” at the local performing arts center. Earlier that week, I was starting to formulate a concept for a full-length play. I don’t write too many of them. In 2014 I wrote “The Secrets of the Magic Pool,” and in 2011 I…
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I am very much me. And so is my writing.
I am very much me. It shouldn’t come as a shock that when I write, I focus on what I know. I know Asia. Living here for twenty years will do that. Asia is probably forever in my writing DNA, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. What did Hemmingway write? The South Floridian…
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Writing: If your brain keeps stewing, you probably aren’t finished.
As a rule, I typically do this: if my brain keeps stewing about a work you completed, it’s not complete and you need to revisit it. I’m not talking about the revision process when a writer is still in the mode of improving a work. I’m talking about after the writer thinks the work is…
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A Writer’s Problem? Diverted attention
Here’s the problem: I have so many writing interests that I jump around to all kinds of writing projects at the same time. I should be working on my novel right now. I’m almost done with the first draft, but here’s where my rabbit-hold-kind-of-brain has been at this week. Two days ago, I got an…
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Reflections on Writing: Are they good enough?
I’ve just finished writing a collection of short dramatic sketches which will be performed as my new Christmas show, “MORE Tales of Wonder: Another RLT Christmas,” this December. My immediate reaction to the pieces is rather muted. I don’t know what to think about them, and I’m sure I don’t really know what I got…
Author Mark W Sasse 