Journal Entries for 2006
Journal Entries for 2005
01: where am I? (3 comments)
02: 94X500=? (4 comments)
03: thoughts on professional writers (2 comments)
04: I'm not crazy, I'm just... (2 comments)
05: characterization (2 comments)
05: If your books were Klingons... (3 comments)
06: Ahem...happy birthday to... (5 comments)
08: getting the basics right (1 comments)
09: boring drills (2 comments)
10: what do you get from reading? (2 comments)
11: rewritin' (7 comments)
12: depth, emotional impact and take-away value... (10 comments)
13: The book marketing dilemma (2 comments)
15: background noise (5 comments)
17: How do you feel? (5 comments)
19: ambition (11 comments)
20: Today's fortune cookie says... (5 comments)
22: make new friends... (3 comments)
24: uuummmmm.... (9 comments)
25: My Detroit (13 comments)
26: My Writing Library (11 comments)
27: most entertaining? (5 comments)
30: re-writing and why (2 comments)
31: Re-writing Analysis (1 comments)
February
01: editing (5 comments)
02: Small Presses/distribution/Midnight Ink (11 comments)
03: Hardcover versus Paperback Original versus Trade Paperback (9 comments)
07: Publishing 101 (9 comments)
08: young and foolish (7 comments)
09: Sssshhhhhhh! (1 comments)
10: Expectations (8 comments)
13: Words to live by... (0 comments)
14: Though he writes from sun to sun... (3 comments)
16: The Da Vinci Toe (5 comments)
19: The Fiction Paradigm (12 comments)
21: The glamorous writing life... (3 comments)
22: 7 Things Meme--as inspired by Eric Mayer's blog (8 comments)
24: My own internal monologue (4 comments)
27: interviews (0 comments)
28: Battling the hobgoblins (5 comments)
March
01: Thinkin' 'bout Janet Evanovich (6 comments)
03: What's in your toolbox? (8 comments)
05: Working (4 comments)
07: What to write? (9 comments)
08: Time to write (3 comments)
09: I hold these truths to be... (2 comments)
10: Lies, damned lies, and... (13 comments)
12: The Terry Imperative (3 comments)
13: 10 Writing Basics (8 comments)
14: Thinning the herd (4 comments)
15: The price of success in writing (6 comments)
16: The Tami Hoag Technique (3 comments)
17: A writer and his money... (6 comments)
18: A few books... (4 comments)
19: Schizophrenia is a good thing (2 comments)
20: The Konrath Response (8 comments)
21: overnight success (3 comments)
22: Plot twists (4 comments)
23: Wednesday Timeline (0 comments)
24: Writing as a Job (2 comments)
27: the big push (2 comments)
29: best laid plans (2 comments)
30: can't figure the appeal of this swill (11 comments)
31: bestsellers and numbers (4 comments)
April
02: bassackward outlining (1 comments)
04: The Freelancer's Mindset (0 comments)
05: Damn, I'm lucky! (3 comments)
06: what editors want (5 comments)
07: literary agents (2 comments)
09: money and its writer is soon parted... (4 comments)
10: Selling shit in tinfoil (2 comments)
11: it sucks to be me (7 comments)
12: The Dread Disease: Otherauthoritis (5 comments)
14: I'm sending you away... (5 comments)
17: It's crowded in here (3 comments)
18: making a living in the arts (4 comments)
19: I need a 12-step program (2 comments)
20: first novels (7 comments)
23: Dancing (4 comments)
25: Tantalus and the Writer (4 comments)
26: To market, to market... (2 comments)
27: The Touch of the Gods (7 comments)
28: Touch of the Gods--Chapter 2 (10 comments)
May
02: B'ware the Non-Writing Assignment (0 comments)
03: Dancing in the Dark--an update (10 comments)
04: The Downside to Google Alerts (6 comments)
05: Doin' Your Own T'ing (7 comments)
05: 52 Pickup (2 comments)
08: Beginning Writers' Biggest Problems (6 comments)
09: We're Off! (7 comments)
10: It's better to... (7 comments)
11: Which story? (4 comments)
12: NSA's Domestic Surveillance (5 comments)
14: Let go-a that ape! (2 comments)
16: I'm so thrilled! (0 comments)
17: Yesterday (1 comments)
18: Dancing Dog & Female Preachers (8 comments)
19: Book promotion--here's a thought (1 comments)
22: Treasure Hunters (3 comments)
23: Fear (5 comments)
24: Satisfaction (3 comments)
25: Persistence: I guess it's true (4 comments)
26: Off the top of my head... (1 comments)
26: The Big Lie (3 comments)
30: Baltimore (0 comments)
31: New League Record! (0 comments)
June
01: Taking a day off (3 comments)
02: Beware Wet Paint (7 comments)
03: A tight, narrow focus (1 comments)
05: Still a little like Christmas (0 comments)
06: A writer defines himself (3 comments)
07: Jesters (0 comments)
08: Anne Coulter (3 comments)
09: A Little Help From My Friends (0 comments)
11: Pirates of the Caribbean (2 comments)
12: Fiction Versus Money (7 comments)
12: Why I'm Not An Accountant (3 comments)
13: Light Years (0 comments)
14: 11 Minutes--A Derek Stillwater Short Story (2 comments)
15: Technologically Deprived (2 comments)
15: Dave Burton's "11 Minutes" (2 comments)
16: Scaring off Minotaurs (2 comments)
18: Tiger Woods, fathers and writing (2 comments)
20: The Devil's Pitchfork--Page Proofs (3 comments)
21: Writing Evolution, not Revolution (1 comments)
22: Indies versus Chain (10 comments)
23: Hereinafter referred to as the "Work" (4 comments)
26: Book Advances--You Really Need To Read This (4 comments)
29: Mark's Muttered Musings (10 comments)
30: The 1st The Devil's Pitchfork review (2 comments)
July
04: Independence Day (5 comments)
05: Dis, dat & de utter (5 comments)
06: Another Typical Day at the Office (4 comments)
07: Mom Liked You Best (2 comments)
10: The Madness of Art (2 comments)
11: The secret of success (1 comments)
12: Food for thought (2 comments)
13: Senses (5 comments)
13: Mark Terry--movie mogul (11 comments)
17: Distractions (9 comments)
18: Doing your homework (3 comments)
21: Random Thoughts On a Variety of Subjects (0 comments)
24: Get a life! (5 comments)
25: What I learned from Magglio Ordonez (2 comments)
26: That Amazon Thing (8 comments)
27: The Triggerfish Twist (4 comments)
28: Arousal and desire... or vice versa (4 comments)
29: rearranging furniture (4 comments)
31: Sunday, Day of Rest--Not! (2 comments)
31: Book Sales--Getting Real (8 comments)
August
01: Money & The Writer (10 comments)
01: Amazon's getting clever... (4 comments)
02: Beating Up Honor Students (9 comments)
03: just showing up (7 comments)
04: The Compass of Captain Jack Sparrow (5 comments)
06: Aaaahhhhh, vacation... (1 comments)
07: Kayaking 101--oops (3 comments)
09: Nobody Knows Anything (5 comments)
11: As I was saying... (5 comments)
12: Book Sections in Newspapers (3 comments)
13: Book Review: Kill All The Lawyers by Paul Levine (2 comments)
14: General Motors, Timothy McVey and... (1 comments)
15: A little terrorism context (4 comments)
16: NEW BLOG SITE (0 comments)
