No post next week, because my partner and I will be on vacation, and I intend to maximize my loafing time as much as possible. No time for loafing now though! We've got a post to bottle up and cast into the Sea of Bottomless Blogs and Ocean of Endless Opinions. Sploosh. Rise and Shine...or not! As the season transitions into fall, daylight grows more scarce, and it becomes more precious. Left to my own devices, I wake with the sun, rising earlier in the summer months, sleepin

One of my closest friends recently shared an Instagram short with me from a small-time, self-published author whose solution to pacing problems was, "Make waiting dangerous," which prickled me enough to make me ask why and want to unpack it. Let's assume for the moment that 1) AJ is sincere in his attempt to help newer writers with pacing and 2) the story told is true: AJ's best friend approached him and admitted that she's been having an affair behind her husband's back the

Just a heads up, I won't be posting a blog next week, since it's nearing the end of the quarter. In the first draft of last week's post, I originally deviated from discussing the pros and cons of writing so soon after a session vs waiting to talking about Ernest Hemingway's "Iceberg Theory," otherwise referred to as the theory of omission. The iceberg illustrates that the elements the reader sees on the page such as character dialogue or action, the tip of the iceberg, are al