Tag: writing
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An Interesting Quote from Ecclesiastes for Indie Authors – 2
Yesterday I posted this quote from Ecclesiastes 7: “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” I gave one lesson from it for indie authors. Here’s the link to Lesson 1 from yesterday: HERE! Lesson 2 for Indie Authors: Patience is better than pride. Oh my. If there…
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An Interesting Quote from Ecclesiastes for Indie Authors – 1
Look at this interesting quote from Ecclesiastes 7: “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” Lesson 1 for the Indie Author: Ending is better than beginning. Boy, that sums me up as a writer pretty well. Writing the end of a novel is always better than…
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Are you telling the story you want to tell?
If you are telling the story you want to tell, congratulations. You must feel fulfilled as a writer. As I was compiling my most recent story, I got to the point where I realized I had told everything about this story I had wanted to tell. I would be proud to put my name at…
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Bad Writing Sessions – Push Onward
Ahhh! The tortured writer. Tortured in thoughts. Words that taunt. Phrases which elude. Plot which plods. Characters I don’t care about. When will it end? Perhaps when I end this tortuous session. We’ve all had them – those unproductive sessions when nothing flows right and everything sounds exactly wrong. That was me this afternoon. I…
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Back to Novel Writing
Felt good. Very good, actually, to get back to novel writing today. Being at the beach, next to a pool and a cold drink doesn’t hurt either. This is the life of an indie author, grabbing those writing times when they come. One has to make the most of them, and today I did. My…
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A Packed House of Laughter and Tears
It’s one thing to write a novel and press the publication button, sending it out into the reader-sphere to be met with an audience of critics. But it is entirely another thing to sit back at opening night of the play you have written and watch talented young actors bring it to life, to see…
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Writer’s Block Because of Distraction
I currently cannot write. It has nothing to do with a lack of ideas, interesting characters, or twisting plot-lines in my head. I have plenty of those. I can’t write because I’m distracted, and this fact has actually taught me a few things about writing. First off, I’m distracted over drama. I write, direct, produce…
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Writing Stories that Teach and Make People Think
I love stories that teach. Not in a pedagogical sense, but stories that emit meaning, that make one think. Stories that teach us something about the human condition. Stories, for me, have to be about more than just entertainment. In our increasingly relativistic world, I have seen a general trend in storytelling – it has…
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RLT – The Little Group Near to My Heart
I’ve teaching, directing, and writing drama for a number of years now. I guess it’s been seven and a half years. I’ve learned so much – mostly that I don’t know much about acting or directing. (On the writing part I think I’m okay.) I get to work with young high school actors – some…
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Ways to write when you have no time to write.
Does this happen to you? You finally get some good, extended, quality time for writing, and you whip off thousands of words day after day in a frenzy of creativity only to have life slap you in the face and say, “Slow down. You have other things to do.” Grrrr. How true it is! Last…
Author Mark W Sasse 