Are hipsters still a thing? Or am I giving away my age? I suspect that all writers embark upon a journey to discover what writing process best works for them. Some succeed. And of those who don’t, I fear that most of them eventually give up writing entirely. The latter described me not that long ago. If you looked at my desk (you might…

Whether plotter or discovery writer, every author has their very own writing process. And whatever that process is today might be completely different in a few year, months, or even weeks. And I’m no different, even if my writing process does have a few “quirks” as it were. Because my process is very physical. That’s to say, I don’t use a laptop. At least…

No, that isn’t the title of a new story, but now that I say that, it totally could be! Hermmm… Okay, I need to stop getting distracted! One could even say that I need to keep to one direction. Which brings us to the purpose of this post. Yes, the good ol’ compass rose. If you’ve seen the maps of Iscaria–the world in which…