February 27th, 2009
This week saw an important step in Persistent Spirit’s development: three volunteers have offered their time to read, edit, and comment on the first ten chapters, and they currently have the text.
For the first time, eyes other than mine are looking over the words I have been poring over for well over a year. I [...]
February 20th, 2009
There are a multitude of texts covering self editing, but few extend their landing struts and come right down to earth with simple, practical techniques. Here is one very simple technique to give your writing more punch.
I regularly read about the danger of too frequent use of passive language in writing. We use passive language [...]
January 26th, 2009
The principles of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system have been a huge help for me in, would you believe it, getting things done. A friend recently asked me to describe how I work GTD principles within Google’s GMail to maintain control of the dreaded email inbox. Here is an outline of my personal [...]
December 27th, 2008
Just over a year ago and with a very rough, hand written first draft, I decided to start writing and producing a regular audio book series of my first novel, Persistent Spirit. Now that I have struggled through a year of working this way, is it something I would repeat?
There are pros and cons to [...]
August 6th, 2008
There has been a fair amount of discussion in this household this week about our personal processes in writing. Novels do not write themselves, and are a vast undertaking. So how would you get from scribbled inspiration to 100,000 words worthy of someone taking the time to read?
How you would achieve this, I have no [...]
January 6th, 2008
Today’s the day I have been planning for since November, and it has arrives: the first Chapter Episode of Persistent Spirit is live!
TABLE RAPPERS – PERSISTENT SPIRIT
CHAPTER 1
Doctor Matthew Keynes pays his weekly visitation and meets with dear friends, but his night is anything but agreeable.
Story running time: 22 minutes
Total running time: 36 minutes
Available [...]
