Word Count Goals and Such
So, I did Nanowrimo this November, as I previously mentioned. I said I’d do a blogpost about why, but I don’t recall what I was going to say in one because my reasons basically boil down to the atmosphere on their forums had changed to be much more friendly and less stupid, so the community […]
Great First Lines
This is another thing from that list of blogposts that wasn’t totally stupid. “Make a list of great first lines from books,” it said. So, here is a list of five first lines that I really like, in no special order: All children, except one, grow up. — Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie It is given […]
I Forgot I Should Never Read The Comments on YouTube Videos (A Coming Out Post Of A Sort)
Before I start this one, I should probably warn you that this one is not about writing, fiction, or any of the other shit I normally rant about here. This one is about me, Shannon Haddock the person. So if you’re just here for writing stuff, you probably want to skip this one. (Also, I’m writing this […]
This is another post that supposed to help me gain followers or something
The suggestion for what to blog about is “Write an article highlighting one of your Pinterest boards and explain how and why you use it”. I do, in fact, have a Pinterest account. I even have boards for a couple of my books. So, here, have a look at my board for the cleverly titled Jake’s […]
Future Story Ideas . . . At Least, That’s What It Was Supposed To Be About
Welcome to a new, (supposedly) regular feature of this blog where I go through a list of some “things for writers to blog about”. Sometimes I will, amazingly enough, actually be blogging about whatever the suggested topic is instead of snarking about it! Today is not one of those days, however. Today’s topic — as […]
Anyone interested in being a beta reader?
I want more people’s opinions on the-gods-please-let-this-be-the-final-draft of No More Lies. I know there are a million writer hangouts online where I can ask, but all of those have the expectation that I’ll also beta read the other guys’ stuff and, quite frankly, I don’t have the temperament to be a good beta reader . . […]
Ways To Get Me To Not Buy Your Book
All of these are prompted by things I have really seen or behavior I have really seen authors engage in. Have very basic grammar and spelling errors in your blurb. I hate that this even has to be said. If you can’t write a blurb without fucking up stuff I learned in fourth grade, then […]
I Have Nothing Clever To Call This One
If you’re following me anywhere just because I’m another self-published author, unfollow me, please. I don’t give a flying fuck how many followers I have . . . because I’m intelligent enough to realize that followers do not necessarily translate into sales. If you started following me for that reason and have since fallen in […]
More reasons to think the creative writing course I took was horrible
Back in this post last year, I talked about the creative writing course I took in college and why I hated it so much. Today while doing some cleaning I came across the copies of the fucking story the professor and everyone hated so much that they’d marked up. And that sentence could probably be phrased better, […]
Dumb Writing Exercises
At the library a while back I picked up a writing book purely because its cover was interesting. (Highly scientific methodology for choosing what to read, I know.) The book had an interview with GRRM that made clear the interviewer wasn’t paying attention to a damned thing the man said, some strange essays including one arguing that […]