I absolutely blazed my way through the first three books of Brian Sanderson's "Mistborn" series. These books are as good as all the fantasy dorks tell you it is. The first book is, essentially, "what if Ocean's 11, but there's people that use metals to get magic powers?" Like, that premise, in and …
Whenever I finish a good book (it was Ready Player One this time), I find myself in a reading slump. So, I'm going to keep a list of resources to refer to when I'm looking for a new book to check out from the library. This article from the New York Times has a list of 22 of the funniest novels since …
I’m reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. I’m 6 chapters in, and I think they’ve done more to help me accept the “shitty first draft” and the “just write every day” mantras better than the tens of other books and hundreds of other articles that tried to beat me over the head with them. Her opening …
Whenever you write, there’s always that mean voice in your head that keeps saying that you need to write much, muchbetter. Shut it up by reading some books and making small tweaks to your writing workflow (this is a 2-part blog post). These books are great, obviously. I’ve read them, I’ve learned a …