January 2016

13 Things I Know About Writing Full Time Now I’m Back to Full Time Again

I wrote “11 Things I Wish I’d Known About Full Time Writing When I First Started Writing Novels” way back in 2009, when I was forced to full time writing by a sudden cessation of revenue.  That’s pirate speak for “my job was cut”. In January 2013 I added an update to the bottom of

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Australia Day

Thanks to the international date line and time zones, by the time you read this, Australia Day will be over and done in Australia. But it’s Australia Day for me, so I’m digitally waving the flag. Hope the fireworks were good this year!

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Don’t be Retail-Centric (You’ll Miss Out)

This is a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. For links to previous posts, and the rest of the series as it is published,

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When Does XXX Come Out?

From the Mailbag.  January 18, 2016 From time to time, I get email (usually) asking me a question that deserves to be answered in public, where a lot of readers who have probably been wondering the same thing can see the answer, too. I got this email the other day: Hi Tracy; I really liked

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While Rome Burned….

I’m pretty sure everyone knows who Nero was — he was the emperor who “fiddled while Rome burned” — although whether he actually fiddled or simply procrastinated while the great fire of Rome razed most of the city to the ground is open to dispute. But everyone pretty much agrees that Nero was a fairly

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Stories Rule (Because They Do)

This is a start of a short series, The Twenty-First Century Reader’s Manifesto, where I will share what I see as the essential strategies and tactics a reader (you and me) should use to maximize their reading experience here in the twenty-first century. About ten years ago, an English writer, Michael Allen, wrote an essay

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Flash Fiction Snippet – January 11, 2016

I’m experimenting madly here, and you’re my guinea pigs. Creativity is a lot like muscle tissue — if you keep exercising it, it gets stronger. There’s grounds to argue that writing full time keeps the creativity muscle plenty healthy, but for a long time now, I’ve been writing in the same six or so series. 

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