WRITER on WRITING

            Well, it’s that time of year where some ugly truths must be addressed.  Artists only get to make art because they get paid.  Artists get paid when people buy their art.
I’m going to talk to you about buying stuff.
However...

            So, hey, at the risk of being a bit of a killjoy, let’s talk about Black Friday and the holidays and being poor for a couple of minutes.
Actually, no.  Let’s talk about moving and forgetting your wallet.
Well, about me moving and forgetting my wallet....

            Two posts a week is becoming a  kinda regular thing here, isn’t it...?
So, hey, you may have seen that a certain set of writing “rules” was passed around Twitter recently.  Not so much rules, in this case, as a collection of trolling and rejected fortune cookie messages.  People made fun of it.  I was one of them....

            Hey, here we are.  Exactly halfway through NaNoWriMo.  How are things going?  Hopefully you’re about halfway through your goals.  Don’t freak out if you’re not.  There’s still plenty of time to get caught up.  You’re going to nail this.
Anyway, I had an interesting back-and-forth with my editor last month, and I thought it would be worth sharing with you....