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A point of view on first person point of view
Well into a draft of my novel I realized I suffered from info-dump-itis. I know better than to do this, but I had such a great world I had created and felt the need to cram it down the reader’s throat. Every scene told the story from a different character’s viewpoint in third person. As…
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Who has time to write a blog? No one.
I’m at the coffee shop eating my oatmeal with walnuts, brown sugar and raisins. I’m thinking, “I want to write that blog entry on why I switched to writing my novel in first person.” But first I have a class I start teaching tonight and I haven’t outlined the syllabus. I need to mulch the…
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I survived bootcamp
I feel like I’ve grown the most as a fiction writer due to some spontaneous decisions I’ve made. One of these was doing National Novel Writing Month on the first day it started. I made a split decision on November 1st to write a 50,000 first draft of a novel by November 30th. And I…
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Shower Concert
How great is it to cut loose in the shower and sing your head off? Here are the most popular requests when I do a shower concert, in no particular order (laughing is not allowed): “The Closer I Get to You” by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. Yes, I sing both the girl and boy…
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My reading this past year: 2011
If you know me, you know that I love to read. It seems when I find out someone else likes to read, I feel an instant bond. When I find out that we like to read similar genres, that person feels like a long lost cousin. When I find out that someone has read some…
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New Year’s Revolutions for the Mind
In 2012, I promise to . . . Not take myself so seriously. I will laugh at myself at least once a day and encourage my friends to join me in the chucklehood. Try harder to see things from the other person’s perspective. I will realize that not everyone has lived life in the save…
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Work from home!
This kind of sounds like me a long time ago. I wrote 100 short stories I’m glad you’ll never see Some learning tips from this article: “The one consolation through all this was that my stories did improve — slowly — and I was just aware enough of my shortcomings as a fiction writer to…
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Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk
Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club).
My Projects:
Andrew M. Friday 