Writing is Cake

When I heard there was going to be a new Indiana Jones movie many moons ago, I groaned.  I was not happy with what Mr. Lucas did with the new Star Wars movies, and I just couldn’t see a new Indy movie being anything other than a train wreck.
I wanted it to be good the [...]

Like a lot of writers, the ideas are the things that get me excited. I get partway through a project and one, two, or ten new ideas pop into my nogging begging for attention.  The crazier and more cosmically weird, the better.
This creates two frequent problems for me.  The first is that I struggle against [...]

When I write new characters, their biggest problem is usually that they’re all me. I may be a bit of a character in some senses of the word, but lacking a well developed multiple personality disorder there is just one of me rattling around in my head. As the characters make it from [...]