Alright, you’ve determined your creative endeavor qualifies as a business: you’re pursuing profit; you’ve got a way to track your sales and expenses that involves more than stuffing receipts in your glove box; and, most importantly, you’ve got the right… Read More ›
Blog
Thoughts from the road.
You’ve Got to Treat It Right
Last time I mentioned the first steps of distinguishing your writing hobby from your writing business. Presumably, you’ve done that by now and want to know more about the things to do as a ‘business owner’. No? Well, call your… Read More ›
The Business of Creating Stuff
Writing can be a wonderful hobby. Releasing those inner imaginings, freeing them into the wild, whether on public display or not can mean so many things on a personal level to the writer that publication is often an unnecessary or… Read More ›
Lost in Revisions
Well, I’m not lost narratively. I’m lost in the process and haven’t been posting much blog-wise. I’m actually enjoying it. Tightening things, getting stuff just right. I think I might have rushed the end because I was looking forward to… Read More ›
Late to the Reaping
Here I am, late to the party again. I just got back from a road trip and along the way I listened to book one of the Hunger Games. I know, old news. I’m not going to review the book… Read More ›
There’s an App for THAT?!
I was thinking of Arthur C. Clarkes’ Third Law, that any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I’m tossing around ideas for a fantasy novel and as my roots of fantasy are not only in novels but RPGs, I… Read More ›
Romancing the Genres
We have a tradition with our crit group. Every Tuesday night, we gather to critique each other’s work and then a bunch of us will slip off to a local bar for our after party. It’s not what you think…. Read More ›
Mash-ups and Mud Wrestling
I had a productive writing week. I managed to crank out a 5k word short story and get it sent off to the publisher. Now, as usual, I get to try to ignore the fact I sent it and wait… Read More ›
What Color is Your Cape?
As is obvious, I’ve been neglecting my blog the past week. The really great, terrific, unbelievable news is that I got the first draft of my current major project done. 96k words which is about 20k over my first goal,… Read More ›
RED ALERT! ALL HANDS! WOOP WOOP!
For a few hours on Tuesday night, my site was hijacked. The template was all messed up and across the top of the screen was a banner saying “your Internet Explorer version is out of date” or some nonsense. (It… Read More ›
RUSS LINTON 