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Category: Lindsay’s Musings

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, 2021August 31, 2024Leave a comment

Update: You can now read the finished short story mentioned in this article along with seventeen more in my collection The Dragon Within. Original Article Those of you who are on my mailing list will already know that I was recently approached by a small 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, 2020February 1, 20256 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

My Tribute to Clive Cussler

Posted onMarch 14, 2020September 14, 2020Leave a comment

I found my first Clive Cussler novel in a thrift store. I was there with my Mom as an unwilling young teenager, spending my time sifting through hundreds of tattered romance novels trying to find something that might appeal to a reader whose primary fodder Read More …

CategoriesCraft of Writing, Lindsay's MusingsTagsauthor tribute, Clive Cussler, for writers, Keltin Moore, Lost Under Two Moons

A Writer Needs Wisdom More Than Confidence

Posted onMarch 9, 2018August 31, 2024Leave a comment

I’m a member of a number of online writing communities where writers from various genres and backgrounds gather to share successes, talk shop, and sometimes commiserate together about the difficulties that come with our chosen profession. Recently, I saw a post that was a perfect Read More …

CategoriesCraft of Writing, Lindsay's MusingsTagsfor writers

A Favorite Fantasy Monster: Jane Yolen’s Dragons

Posted onJanuary 26, 2018January 29, 20181 Comment

Today I’m answering a challenge from fellow fantasy author Aaron Volner to write about a favorite creature from the world of fantasy fiction. After giving it some thought, I decided that I would write about the dragons from the YA fantasy series The Pit Dragon Read More …

CategoriesLindsay's MusingsTagsblog chain, dragons

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