The Starving Theater Artist

Authors writing historical or history-themed fiction cover a spectrum of research ability. Oddly, though, they don't seem to plot in a b...

So, writing a novel set during the late Bronze Age was turning into years of research. So, I took a step back to do something that didn'...

Didn't feel writerly (or up for much of anything). Went to breakfast. Brought my folding keyboard (it goes practically everywhere with m...

I've been trying out a new piece of software called Campfire . It is a writer's helper; not a word processor optimized for writing b...

Titles are hard. In the modern marketplace, the title of your book has to do more than attract the wandering eye. It also has to identify...

Plotting on The Aurelius Dupondius  or whatever the novel's going to be called. I put an archaeological dig in Germany because I felt I ...

It is come to my attention that it may be a bit hard to figure out what novel I'm writing at the moment. Well, welcome to the club. I fi...