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Social Media Break or The Horror of Storymakers17

I really need a break from social media, albeit, those who follow my blog would think I’m on a social media break 10 months out of the year – sorry about that. As you can see from the title, this blog post started last May as “The Horror of Storymakers17, and has morphed into something … Continued

The Queen Mary & StokerCon

It was an adventure from the very beginning – having got my dates wrong, I found out 10 days too late that I had purchased airline tickets for the 16th instead of the 26th – a few hundred dollars later, I was en route to Long Beach at the wonderful hour of 0500 hours MST. … Continued

Fitting Life Around Writing: Distractions

Our last exciting adventure found our heroes examining Time and how to fit our lives around it and writing. If managing time isn’t difficult enough, Distractions tend to jump on the wagon in force, taking us away from what we want to do. At times, we wonder if we should be diagnosed, medicated , or … Continued

LUW Fall Conference

Writing Conferences can be interesting, rewarding, or a huge waste of time and money. Having attended several, the League of Utah Writers (LUW) does a pretty good job of not wasting one’s time, and keeping the conference relatively affordable (especially in comparison to other writing conferences).  Now, for a little shameless self-promotion… I will be … Continued

Fitting Life Around Writing: Time

One thing I’ve found over the years, if I want to get something done, I need to plan and I really need to manage my Time. As a writer, this is extremely important. No Time equals No Writing. Unlike the writers of the last century, writers in the present not only have to write, but … Continued

Kick Start Continued – XXX

Write a Sizzling Sex Scene? Most of the writers I know do not write sex scenes, and those that do tend to favor the classic, traditional, old fashioned sex scene: inference, inference, inference – the sex takes place off screen, off page, in the mind of the reader. Guess what? A sizzling sex scene does … Continued

Kick Start Hemingway and Wells in Spain

Most people are familiar with Ernest Hemingway’s connection to Spain via bull fighting, fishing, or even the Spanish Civil War, but Orson Wells? He loved Spain  too, and his ashes are in the very air near Ronda. I had the opportunity to discover this factoid and channel the ghosts of the past in an intensive … Continued

Writing Conferences

Writing conferences can be beneficial, but they can be huge distractions to one’s writing. It reminds me of my days in the Air Force, Military Intelligence, and that wonderful figure of speech: oxymoron. Do writing conferences help or hinder productivity? Are they nothing more than venues for successful writers to indulge in self-esteem building groupie-fests? … Continued

Very Nice Review

A very nice review of It Came from the Great Salt Lake by the wonderful and talented Paul Genesse.   Here’s an excerpt: “Horseman by K Scott Forman is a crazy mash-up with comedic and literary elements that point to real history in Utah and beyond.” Thank you, Paul!

The Path We Choose

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.      Robert Frost, from The Road Not Taken As writers, sometimes the path we are on is downright painful: no publisher or editor is interested in our work or we constantly/consistently get the familiar not quite right at this time. We … Continued