R J Theodore

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Projects on my Plate

December 26, 2017 by R J Theodore

I’m in a very to-do listy mood today. Sometimes all the joy I get comes from planning and deciding on directions and next steps. Thankfully this doesn’t happen every day, because plans never engaged don’t go far. I spent yesterday afternoon playing Skyrim. I figure listy moods probably come from the deep, painful, lingering guilt […]

Filed Under: Blather, Process, Self-Publishing, Writing Tagged With: brainwaves, consistency, creative process, development, drafting, Flotsam, keto, phantom traveler, revisions, Salvage, thoughts, to-do lists, writer's life, writing

Introspeculative Fiction

November 14, 2017 by R J Theodore

How do writers weave stories about places and times and societies that don’t exist? How can we ‘write what we know’ if we are making it all up? The narrative of the story, the meat that hangs off its bones and the costumes we drape them in – that’s where the fiction lies. The heart […]

Filed Under: Blather, Motivation, Writing Tagged With: abstract thoughts, artists, brainwaves, creative process, development, epiphanies, Flotsam, inspiration, life, Muses, NaNoWriMo, phantom traveler, process, Science Fiction, writer's life, writing

Happy Halloween (aka NaNoWriMo’s Eve)!

October 31, 2017 by R J Theodore

Tomorrow I begin NaNoWriMo. I am writing this on Sunday, ahead of attempting to do much prep work to figure out my stories. Hopefully by the time this post publishes, I will have them leashed and under control. Since I last posted, Flotsam has undergone a shift, which you can hear about in my YouTube […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: asimov hour, drafting, epiphanies, Flotsam, NaNoWriMo, outlines, process, pronouns, respect, reviews, revisions, Science Fiction, story structure, truth, writer's life, writing podcast, youtube

Recommence

October 19, 2017 by R J Theodore

Monday night, I was finally able to launch the site I’ve been building for my day job. It’s not done, but it is live. I can now return to the schedule of working on that during office hours, taking weekends off, and all the normal things that allow me to do my own projects outside of work. […]

Filed Under: Day Job, Process, Writing Tagged With: creative process, discipline, drafting, editing, Flotsam, health, life, NaNoWriMo, patreon, phantom traveler, process, revisions, Salvage, Science Fiction, thoughts, word counts, writer's life, writing

Finality

October 12, 2017 by R J Theodore

I can’t describe how unnerving it is to be done with FLOTSAM. It’s on NetGalley and, provided no hawk-eyed reader catching any other typos or such things, I won’t have to touch those words again. I’ve been sifting through those words as carefully as a prospector for so long, it feels bizarre to move to a new […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: abstract thoughts, artists, brainwaves, creative process, editing, Flotsam, process, revisions, Salvage, Science Fiction, Steampunk, thoughts, writer's life

Reviewers, Start Your Engines!

October 10, 2017 by R J Theodore

FLOTSAM is available for review on NetGalley: http://bit.ly/2ybUGSI ePub and Mobi files are available via BookFunnel to all members of the Parvus reviewers email list. Print galleys are available upon request to Parvus (not to me, I don’t have one, either!). I will also be distributing ARC copies to my dedicated VIP Readers list. This is […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Process Tagged With: Adventure, announcements, Fantasy, Flotsam, life, marketing, NetGalley, parvus, Science Fiction, Steampunk

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