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…

After my decade in review, some folks said “That’s great, but… what are your goals for 2020?” It’s something that got lost in all this bigger scale reflection. The thing is, whenever people ask me my goals, I get nervous. It’s complicated. Not because don’t have goals, but because, when it comes to goals I feel like this guy: I actually think a lot about my goals. So when people ask me what my goals are that’s not a simple question and part of me wonders “Well do you really want to know? Because bub I got yearly, quarterly, and…