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The Declarative Voice and Blogging

By GoW | Published: July 25, 2008
A friend and I recently had a con­ver­sa­tion about blog­ging. We talked about how when you’re blog­ging and you have some­thing you want to say, you have to write in the declar­a­tive or else the text comes off wishy-washy. He knew it was right, but it was his biggest hur­dle to get over. I agree that [...]
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When to post?

By GoW | Published: June 8, 2008
I write slowly. Even when I was writ­ing fic­tion full time, I would start a story and then work on some­thing else, until months later I finally had one piece good enough to show. This doesn’t really trans­late well to blog writ­ing, but hey, sub­scrib­ing to a blog is free. I per­son­ally would rather only read [...]
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Wrath of the L

By GoW | Published: May 13, 2008
I’m work­ing on a cou­ple of pieces based on the WotLK news updates. Before that flurry of announce­ments, I was work­ing on bor­ing posts like “Mas­ter Looter is the only option”, “Pace isn’t that hard” and other pieces that sound even worse. Blah blah. I got bored while writ­ing them. I write every­thing con­cur­rently, so [...]
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Texan Sayings

By GoW | Published: March 18, 2008
In my April 2008 issue of Writer’s Digest, there’s a short arti­cle by G. Kyle White called “Back Up Your Work for Free”. Here’s the first sentence: There’s a say­ing in Texas: If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it’ll change. Ah, Texas. Com­pare this to Mark Twain’s famous quote: If you [...]
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