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I hate Artificer Intelligence. But when I say that, I mean the Generative AI and the Language Learning Models. I don’t mean the small automatic things like Spell Check or Predictive Text. I mean the monster that is growing and becoming more evil as it evolves. And before, I used to say that AI was ruining writing. Recently, that has become literal. When AI first hit the scene and people started…

This week comes to the moment in my life that was pivotal in my becoming an author and a writer. It was my senior year of high school, and I decided to take Creative Writing as an elective. I thought is would be an easy ‘A’, which it was for me, but it was so much more too. My senior year of high school, I only had three required classes that I had to take. I could have gone to school for a half…

It’s once again the end of the month, which means that it is time for my word count round up and figuring out how much writing I did in the month of July. Monday through Friday of this month was spent editing my fifth book in the Grimoire Detective seires; Blood Bound; for publication in October. It still sounds so far away, but it’s the first Sunday of October, so I don’t count that month. In…

Continuing with the history of my journey as to how and why I became a writer, this week’s post picks up at a pivotal time in my life in high school. This time in my life is what I would label as my ‘poetry years’. High school had three important moments, all around the same time for me, which led to me writing and wanting to write beyond the required pages of school. The first was my English…

Everyone has an origin story. With the past two decades of superhero films, the writers have all been giving us origin story after origin story. The truth of it is, though – even a writer has their own version of an origin story. That moment that guided them into becoming a writer. Here’s mine. I have always been a fast test taker. Stay with me, this will lead to writing. Ever since I was…

In the modern age of writing, there are theories of how to get the best version of your story. There is the ‘zero draft’ or ‘vomit draft’ to just get the story done. Then you go through and touch that draft up. Then you re-write the entire story from scratch in a new draft now that you know how it ends. Then you do it again, because you made notes along the way. You give that version to a Beta…

This week’s post I would like to talk about your character’s agency in your story. While your main character is the person who Does the Things and Solves the Crimes or Defeats the Villain, that is just What they Do. The agency is Why they do It. And that sometimes gets lost or forgotten in the story writing process. See, Agency is all about the choices that your characters make, and I don’t just…

It’s that time once again to finish up the month with the State of the Pulp. My weekly round-up of things I worked on, word counts for the month, and whatever else is news for this month. Starting off, this Sunday, July 5th, sees the release of The Grimoire Detective: Fallen Guardian. This novel has been prepped and ready to go for a while now, and I am excited for its release. This also means…

I had a few friends messaging me the past few weeks with their own writing struggles. Meanwhile, I have faced an obstacle myself along the way, so I thought I would talk about different problems writers face in their journey to create their stories. One obstacle that has plagued many a writer, including myself, is which project to work on. While I support writers working on more than one project…

What is my goal as a writer? Not just daily, weekly, or monthly goals for words and whatnot. What is my big vision, when the writing is all said and done, what is my Ultimate Goal? When I first started out writing, I was just making stories and trying to figure out the craft. I didn’t have any goal in mind other than to finish the damned thing. At some point, I did dream of someday publishing,…

As an Urban Fantasy author, and a Fantasy writer, one of the biggest elements that gets used in my writing is Magic. And I have seen it done well and I have seen it done poorly, though sometimes the bad magic is only ‘Fridge Losic; later. Today I wish to discuss using Practical Magic in your writing. My point of view on magic is neither the only one nor the only correct one. My ‘right way’ will…

One thing that terrifies writers that I have spoken to is fear. Fear of making a mistake. What if the story they’re trying to tell gets messed up? What if they have a plot hole? What if they hate the story at the end of it all? The fact is that we all make mistakes when we write, but a mistake is not a bad thing. It is not a failure either. It is simply something we have to learn along the…