Flash Fiction: Revenge Reborn
This week’s flash fiction challenge had a simple challenge: introduce a dead body in the first paragraph. (read the full challenge at terribleminds.com)
This week’s flash fiction challenge had a simple challenge: introduce a dead body in the first paragraph. (read the full challenge at terribleminds.com)
So I’ve been gone a while.
A long while.
A really long while.
Ok, I haven’t put anything new up in like 6 months. Read more “Introducing My Comeback…Again?” →
In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell asserts that one of the keys to success is practice, practice, and more practice. He sets the metric at 10,000 hours, that after 10,000 hours of continuous practice you will see yourself become a master.
We’ve all got some area of our lives that we’d like to master, what’s yours?
I am a firm believer that the first step toward mastery is education. I like to gather all of the information I can about a new task in order to learn all about it.
I find this technique has two benefits. First, it gives me a good understanding of how to do that task properly, and all the history of how it has done before. Second, and I feel more importantly, when I know all there is to know about a subject I know how to break the rules properly and bend them to my needs.
That’s why it’s important for me to know WHAT the cliches in fantasy are, so that I can avoid or incorporate them as needed.
I’m a slacker. I’ve been absolutely horrible at keeping the goals I’ve set for myself, both in writing and in other areas of my life. I’m working on changing, but it’s a tough fight against a lifetime being lazy.
I’m not about to give up. Sure, I might fail.
I may not hit the word count I want.
I may not keep the schedule I want.
I may not hit ANY of my goals.
But at least I’m in the arena.