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Category: Lindsay’s Musings

Five Things I Learned While Writing The Adventures of Keltin Moore

Posted onMay 31, 2023May 31, 2023Leave a comment

It’s been over ten years since I first started writing my series about the adventures of a professional monster hunter. With the recent release of The Hunter’s Apprentice as the fourth installment in the series, I thought I’d take a little time to reflect on Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsfor fans, Into the North, Keltin Moore, The Beast Hunter

The Style of Hellboy Covers a Multitude of Sins

Posted onJanuary 27, 2023January 27, 2023Leave a comment

I recently finished reading all six volumes of the collected Hellboy library editions as well as the complete Hellboy in Hell compilation, and as a longtime fan of the character and this series, I have come to a difficult conclusion: Mike Mignola is a terrible Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsfor writers, graphic novels, Hellboy, plotting

The Writer’s Struggle to Read for Pleasure

Posted onAugust 29, 2022August 29, 20221 Comment

One of the best known tips for writers is to be well-read. This has been said hundreds of ways by hundreds of authors, poets, and lecturers. Perhaps one of the best known variants comes from Stephen King: ““If you don’t have time to read, you Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsfor writers, reading for pleasure, writing life

Book Reviews Aren’t Book Reports

Posted onJuly 28, 2022July 28, 2022Leave a comment

Book reviews are the lifeblood of online sales. Without reviews, there’s nothing to separate one independently published title from the millions of other books available to new readers. It requires no extra cost, takes less than five minutes, and will have a lasting positive effect Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsbook reviews

Trial and Error

Posted onJuly 27, 2022July 27, 2022Leave a comment

Everyone loves getting something right the first time. Like cruising through a series of green lights all in a row, a steady momentum built on repeated success is an intoxicating sensation. There’s also a different–but just as satisfying–feeling that comes from accomplishing something that took Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsdifficult times, encouragement, free advice

It Took Me A Year To Make My First Video Essay

Posted onApril 27, 2022April 27, 20232 Comments

It had been a dream of mine for years. I’d watch YouTube videos, thinking of my abilities as a writer as well as my theater experience and time in film school, and I’d think: yeah, I could do that. Turns out, it was hard. Really Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsfor fans, My YouTube Channel, writing motivation

Exploring My Inner Lovecraft

Posted onDecember 29, 2021December 29, 2021Leave a comment

Those of you who are on my mailing list will already know that I was recently approached by a small press to submit a short story to an anthology focusing on Lovecraftian fiction. As a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s original stories, I jumped at Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's Musings, News & UpdatesTagsCthulhu Mythos, for fans, Lovecraft, short story

Where do Story Ideas Come From?

Posted onJune 24, 2021April 27, 2023Leave a comment

I’ve been a storyteller for as long as I can remember. My mom tells me that I told my first story at age three, and I’ve found a story that I wrote in first grade about a horse that saves a cowboy from an angry Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsfor fans, story ideas

Understanding the Nature of Conflict in Story

Posted onMay 24, 2021May 24, 2021Leave a comment

I recently watched a documentary focusing on the many creative and political problems that went into the first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Among the stories of high stakes negotiations and toxic work environments, I was particularly intrigued by the problems that Read More …

CategoriesCraft of Writing, Lindsay's MusingsTagsConflict, for writers, Star Trek

Why I Still Write

Posted onJuly 15, 2020September 14, 20206 Comments

I’m not blind, though I sometimes wish I was. I know what’s going on in the world. I see the fear, the anger, the contempt and depression. My friends and family are fighting with each other, trying to reclaim normalcy that will not truly return Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsCOVID-19, difficult times, for fans, for writers

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