

Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 29: Social Media Fairy
An attention seeking, time usurping menace of a fairy, she's the new kid on the block and the evil fruit of Distraction Fairy's affair...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 25: Insecurity Fairy
Clingy, naggy, and as ever-present as Inspiration Fairy is absent, Insecurity Fairy is a fear-mongering chatterbox with an expansive...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 24: Inspiration Fairy
Thanks to a recent makeover of the blog via the aid of my fabulously talented twin, I stumbled upon a new subject ripe for exploitation...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 19: Writing Day Types - The Bait and Switch
It all started so well. When writing time came, I ignored the mental rolodex of ten thousand other things I could do instead (laundry,...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 18: On Merits and Drawbacks of #NaNoWriMo
It’s November, and to the glut of aspiring novelists in the universe, that means National Novel Writing Month is upon us. It’s the dragon...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 16: Writing Day Types - The Slog
Today was a day on which the words flowed like glue from a twenty year old Elmer's bottle. All the desire and time were there. Hell, even...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 15: 10 Stupid Quotes about Writing
Since generating content is becoming an established lament of this blog, I'm shortcutting my way to this week's blog post by reversing...


Chronicles of A Procrastinating Novelist Volume 6: Pending End of the Hiatus
Sooooooo…. Well a little over a year’s worth of blogging has produced exactly what I dreaded. An essentially defunct project at which...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 4: In Which I Explain my Research Process Using Stre
Common practice for Historical Fiction Writers is to research exhaustively the time period in which their novel is set. The timeframe in...


Chronicles of a Procrastinating Novelist Volume 2: In Which I Discuss the Cure for Writer's Bloc
This week as I was revising The Whisper of Souls (working title), I came across a scene that I just flat hated. It contained dialogue as...