I am a fairly large proponent of the Andalusian concept of duende – the secret longing that seems to plague so many artists. The sense of hurt that exists below the skin, a malleable emotion which can be pushed and gently prodded to evoke the entire human gamut and allow audiences to tap into the [...]
Things have been quiet around here lately, but not for lack of trying. Frankly, for someone who hasn’t earned an honest paycheck since June, I’ve been remarkably busy. First, I’ve been doing a good bit of freelancing work, so much so that I had to take a good joke and try and turn it into [...]
Near the start of this year, I had come up with a couple of ideas, large, expansive, and incredibly labor-intensive ideas that I wanted to contribute to the greater writing community. However, I kept bumping into the fact that while these ideas are really good, they didn’t quite fit on a personal domain where I [...]
03.9.09 | technology, writing | bradley
To say that the internet isn’t going away would be an exercise in understatement. It’s 2009, and the number of people online has surpassed the one billion mark. As a writer, that’s a mind-numbingly large potential audience. And yet, there are still plenty of writers out there without websites. Judging from my readership, you already [...]
In my article at ProWritingTips.com, I laid out five basic reasons for writing an outline before launching into fiction writing. While these particular tips were tailored for fiction, they were in no way meant to be a definitive guide to outlining. I left out a great deal of detail like how long or in depth [...]
It took me nearly a thousand words into the first chapter of Project Kingdom before I killed someone. Granted, the one who died wasn’t by any means a character in the novel. No, the one who fell is just a by-product of a violent scenario. As a war veteran, I’m more than familiar with death. [...]
Today marked my first blog post outside of this website in quite some time. It’s listed as a guest post right now, but it’s actually going to be a weekly column focusing on the technical aspects of writing fiction. It’s a more educational take on my personal, casual approach to story-driven writing as seen here. [...]
At some point in every writer’s career, things get real. It doesn’t matter what the medium – be it copy or fiction – there comes a time where, as a writer, you’ll be sitting at your desk doing everything in your power to avoid writing about something. Call it a block, call it lack of [...]
When I first decided to make a second valiant attempt at writing long form fiction, I was hesitant to address the topic of my brewing works with strangers. All of the half-hearted, and drunken attempts that I’d mustered since the war, the ones that now lay strewn about my office collecting dust in black binders [...]
Sometimes a problem or project just seems too large to delve into. Concepts are too obtuse. Situations simply too large. Gravity, or the need for gravity, keeps some ideas flat on the ground while the others hover ahead, just out of reach. No matter how wide your arms are, there’s no getting them around the [...]
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