This week I am saying goodbye to a project of mine that you’ve probably never heard of. It’s called Writer Wares. The idea behind it was simple: I’m entrepreneurial. I’m creative. I like coffee. What if I made coffee mugs for writers specifically? It seemed great! And I dove in, with designs like this: or this: or this one that I’m especially fond of: Why and How The whole endeavor was meant to be as low overhead, low risk as possible for me. I set it all up through a drop-shipper, and opened a website. I had no idea how…

This week’s video, in continuing with the theme of planning and pre-writing your novel, goes over some prewriting mistakes to AVOID. Here’s the link to the video itself: I mention in passing in the video a mistake I made while prewriting a space opera. That space opera was Stars of Steels and Iron. I wanted to talk more in depth about that mistake because it’s a fascinating case study in how things can go wrong. For some reason, I’d started with PLACE. Because in a space opera, that makes sense? (It does not, in fact, make sense). As someone with…