J.A. Marlow

It seems that at some point in January the plug-in for WordPress stopped forwarding the same post to my Livejournal account. This is a post to see if it is now working. And since I don’t want a completely boring post to be out there, I thought I would offer a nice link. “Creativity Workshop: [...]

A while ago Inkygirl posted a poll about whether writers outlined before they started to write. I responded along with 108 other writers, and the results are now in! 48% said they used an outline. 29% said no, and 32% said it’s too complicated for just a yes/no answer. Hop on over to “Better To [...]

Bob Mayer Posted “Goal Setting For Writers” at Genreality yesterday. This year of writing for me has been all about goals. Making them, working towards them and achieving them. Here soon I’m going to take a first look at how I compare to the 5 Year Plan I posted a while back. See where I’m [...]

Jim C. Hines is doing a “First (Professional) Novel Survey”. If you have a novel that has provided at least a $2000 advance, he would love to have you fill out the survey. He’s already had quite the response, but he’s hoping for more genre variety. He’s looking for brand new authors and grizzled veterans [...]

Yes, I’m nuts. Trying to finish a novel before Nano starts. In one way that’s a very good thing. Gearing up to Nano means the mind and muse are raring to go at writing. But you can’t start until November 1st. By having another project it satisfies that writing ‘itch’. The bad part is: For [...]