The Problem with Musterbation
Posted by Mark Richards on Jan 23, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment
I suppose a definition is in order. What exactly is ‘Musterbation’? Musterbation is allowing your life to be dominated by things you ‘must’ do. A must could be something as simple as taking out the garbage every week to paying your taxes. To be sure, we all have things we must do to survive (eat, sleep, drink water, pay taxes, breathe, etc.). But the...
Read MoreWriting Every Single Day
Posted by Mark Richards on Jan 22, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
Someone recently asked me how I was able to write a 93,000 word novel in less than three months. The answer is simple. I wrote something every day. Now, the novel wasn’t ‘done’ in three months. It went to my editor and she returned it to me with a bunch of edit notes I needed to go through. Some things needed correcting and others I just left alone. What I did find is that I...
Read MoreWhy I Like Women Protagonists
Posted by Mark Richards on Jan 20, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
My first book, The Sequence, is done. Well, I’m done with it. The book is at my editor whom I am sure will find one of two mistakes in it… The protagonist in this book is a woman named Shawna Davidson. She is a recent widow, having lost her husband to a plane crash. The insurance company won’t pay out because they think the death was a suicide. The loss of her...
Read MoreHappy New Year and Setting ‘Gonna’ Goals
Posted by Mark Richards on Jan 2, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
It’s that time of year again, when we say this year I am gonna <fill in the blank>. Most of the time we make these resolutions based on some kind of social pressure. As in, I’m gonna lose some weight (because my momma says I am getting fat), gonna stop drinking (because I won the neighborhoods ‘most bottles recycled award’), and I’m gonna stop peeing in the...
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