Although I’ve been writing most of my life, school, work, and family often interfered with some of the requirements of becoming an effective writer. One of the main requirements is having a dedicated effort to write, if not every day, at least as often as possible. Life gets in the …
I usually try to keep politics out of my stories. By politics, I am usually referring to current political issues regarding policy issues. Unfortunately, politics often now includes social issues that go beyond justice, civil liberties, or the use of tax revenues. While some of these social issues …
In this day and age, writers who write one book, unless they are spectacularly talented and supremely lucky, are going to be lost in the winds of time. There is an immense amount of competition to the written word: cinema, regular TV networks, streaming TV networks, YouTube, TicTok, to name just a few. Within …
Writing at any time of the year is not a piece of cake. Sure, a lot of people think that writing is so easy that anyone can do it, but the truth of the matter is that writing requires specific skills and training (better pay attention in English class, …
Three weeks into February, and I am finally starting to write the draft of the last book in the Hot Dog Detective series: The Absent Ally. This will be a difficult book for me to write, since it is the spiritual end of the series. I have to accomplish a lot of goals with this …
I just completed the first draft of Book 26 of my Hot Dog Detective series, The Zamboni Zealot. I’ll not describe the content of the story in this post, but instead focus my thoughts on completing a draft. When I was a kid, I would watch various programs that featured writers or whatnot, completing their …