The wedding gig as vague inspiration
Griffin and the Spurious Correlations begins with an incident at a wedding gig. It was inspired by a much less eventful incident at a gig… …
Writing
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Griffin and the Spurious Correlations
Chapter 1 of a whole new book begins on [Totally Fantastic Title]. Introducing, Griffin and the Spurious Correlations. This book is probably the most fun …
The Creative Cycle
Creativity is a cycle. An artist, be it a painter, a sculptor, an actor, a musician, a writer… creates a piece that originated in their …
…no success comes by magic.
There’s a scene in Pride and Prejudice where Elizabeth is playing the pianoforte in Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s drawing room at Rosings. Mr. Darcy says …
Griffin and the Creative Process
So Griffin and the Spurious Correlations is now going out to beta readers. This is my contemporary humour fantasy romance, which I will be podcasting …
“I” before “E” .…OMG people!
A word about the i before e rule. Hopefully without rage. Much is made of the rule i before e except after c. There are …
A post to keep you posted
I feel like I should keep you posted on my progress with the final book. No spoilers, don’t worry. I had a breakthrough last week, …
This is what I have right now
I wrote a completely different post, and then decided I didn’t like it. So I deleted it. And then I was going tell a story …
I reject this rejection
Last week I talked about Stephen King’s experience with a teacher who made him feel ashamed of the stories he wrote, and how we need …
The Stephen King Experience
Way back in October, probably in response to my Chats With Cool Folk #3 with Danette and James https://totallyfantastictitle.podbean.com/e/ep-21-chats-with-cool-folk-3-danette-boucher-and-james-douglas/, I ordered Stephen King’s On Writing …