Category Archives: writing

John C. Wright and Tom Simon, fine fellows both, have done their own THE NEXT BIG THING posts. Follow the links to read! -JM

I don’t feel it. In this, I am a Muggle. On the radio this morning a local author was talking about how she loved writing longhand, how it made her feel more connected to the written word upon the page … Continue reading →

I had the strangest thing happened – I started dreaming in haiku. I know why, too. I’m almost done preparing my class lectures, and once I finish editing “Nightfighter“, I want to start a new book. One of the ideas … Continue reading →

I was running, and an idea for my next book came to me in a vision – or was it a hallucination? One or the other. A man named Strand, a master locksmith and trap-maker, the finest in the city … Continue reading →

Mercwriter has a post detailing the emotional stages – many of them involving abject despair – involved in writing a novel. Oh, yes, it speaks to me, it does. See, I’ve written fifteen novels (and probably six or seven unfinished … Continue reading →

Writers procrastinate. This is undeniable. However, there’s a way around it. Find something even more unpleasant than writing. Then you can procrastinate by writing. Like, today. I got a lot of writing done… …but my toilet remains uncleaned. -JM

You know what makes for really great art – whether literature or something else? Pain. Because great art speaks to the human condition, and the one constant of the human condition is suffering. That is why writers are (almost) always … Continue reading →

…is the art of learning to use fewer words to say more. -JM