No matter how many times I sit down to write synopses, I always end up screaming: “If I could distill the story into clever sound bytes, I’d be an advertising mogul, not a novelist!”
At least the project on my hardrive is for a novel yet to be written. 
I find it slightly easier to imagine the main […]

I’m following the theme from the last two days.  Like Diana, I try to write every day because if I take a break, it’s difficult for me to get back in the flow.  My best productivity comes when I am working steadily, at a steady pace, moving forward day by day.  But like Simon, I […]

Ask a handful of writers what works for them and you’ll get a handful of different answers. SFNovelist Diana Pharaoh Francis just posted about writing every day, and here I am to tell you that I’ve never done any such thing.
When I’m working on a novel and facing a deadline you can bet your boots […]

One of the pieces of advice that writers often give is to write every day. I gave that very piece of advice only a week or two ago and the response was a sort of nod that said, yeah, heard that one before, what else have you got? Actually, the context was more like this–I […]