Tag: writing ideas
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Inspiration is Cheap. Just Open Your Eyes. (or Ears)
I’m amazed at the inspiration around me. I went for decades not seeing it. But it’s there. Everywhere – Invalidating our self-pitying claims of writer’s block. Maybe we put blinders on and can’t see it. Maybe we become so focused on the page that we forget that the page belongs in the world. That’s where…
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Ideas for Indie Authors: A Novel is Chasing Me. I’m Losing. (and Winning)
When good ideas impregnate the mind, why fight them? Over the past three weeks, I’ve had a novel idea, actually related to novel-writing, and I haven’t been able to shake it. Even in the midst of revising novel #5, which was supposed to be my priority, this new idea has consumed me every free moment…
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A Writer Stirring Up the Hornet’s Nest
Why couldn’t I just let those darn hornets sleep? I was almost finished, and then … I’m sure this has happened to all writers. You are closing in on the end, already with one draft in the books and you’re anticipating finally closing up a project and moving on to something else. But you, in…
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Finally, Back to Novel Writing
I checked. The last time I had written on my fifth novel was March 29, 2015 – more than four months ago. That would seem terrible for a writer but not necessarily. It’s not like I feel off the writing grid and threw in the towel, far from it. Here’s what I’ve been doing since…
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Writers: Do you have multiple projects on your plate at one time? You should!
I’m one of those people with a messy desk. I clean it a couple times a year to make it clean and pristine, but within a matter of days, it’s back to messy. It’s just the way my brain works. (For reference, I was just cleaning out my in-box and it had over 900 emails.)…
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Writing Season Commences
June. The glorious month when I have my long summer break, which ushers in writing season. It always coincides with travel season for me as well, and I have a lot of travel on the docket – Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and the USA. (More on all of that later.) But as I travel, my laptop…
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Letting Ideas Become Other Ideas
Ideas are not static. There’s a constant ebb and flow to them and any sort of creative artist has to take advantage of the movement of ideas in order to fully develop the original thought. I’m learning to do this better than I did in the past. Many times I would have a writing idea,…
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Don’t Take Good Ideas for Granted. Plan ahead!
Have you ever been in such a good creative patch that you are overflowing with ideas and not enough time to accomplish them all? Relish those days. That’s what I keep telling myself. I am currently overflowing with ideas. I’ve started to map out my drama writing 13 months in advance because I’m producing too…
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Creative Writing: The Tried and True becomes the Tried and New
There is nothing new under the sun. No new plots to uncover. No new experiences to be told about. Creativity is in the realm of re-hashing the common and already told into a refreshing and new take. Creativity is taking that situation and putting your unique twist on it that only you could have created.…
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Retiring “Spy Blue: The Novella”
I recently decided to retire my first and only novella Spy Blue. I wrote that several years ago after I had co-written the drama “Spy Blue.” When I was in the final editing process of the play, I realized that I liked the story and it would be quite easy to turn it into a novella.…
Author Mark W Sasse 