Studying the Craft
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Maintaining Essence
Sometimes, for the larger projects, I try to find a way to maintain the essence—the atmosphere, the theme, the way it makes me feel when I read and write it—and try to maintain it so that there are now shifts.… Continue reading
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Progress in Unexpected Places
Do you ever make progress in parts of your life you wouldn’t have thought? And then it makes you question what you’re actually good at and what you should be doing? Yeah. It’s exciting and thrilling but at the same… Continue reading
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I’m Sleepy
It might be because of the Covid19 situation, but I’m just sleepy all the time. It’s probably a combination of poor diet, the mask suffocating me and lack of diverse stimulation in real life. There’s so much that I can… Continue reading
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Newspapers & Me
I used to read the newspaper when I was younger, and by younger, I mean ages 4-16. I think the very young reading was an interest in the newspaper itself. They were intriguing things that supposedly held all of the… Continue reading
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Editing an Old Flame
I have two projects I’m meant to be editing, and I am currently editing neither of those. When I was experimenting with different genres, I started writing The Baker and the Accountant. The title is just to remind me what’s… Continue reading
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Wrap it up and toss it
This week was a rollercoaster, but despite that, I did get writing done. And it WAS AMAZING. There’s nothing greater than when you have those hours of writing unhindered. You don’t think too much and your hands just fly as… Continue reading
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“Just Making Stuff Up”: Character Depth (the surface)
JUST A REMINDER: this is a lot of my own writing process, and may not reflect the process of other writers. Art never has a manual when it comes to the way everyone does it, and so don’t let people… Continue reading
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Characters Over Stories
Sometimes, I think there are projects that I start where I prefer one aspect over the other. I really love creating characters, sketching them and writing some scenes and sometimes not even really writing up a story around them, just… Continue reading
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My Relationship with the Romance Genre: It’s Complicated
I’ve always grown up disliking the romance genre, and it kinda became a habit. I didn’t mind reading romance in other genres, but despised anything where the girl’s focus was that boy—where the first one is usually a prick—and so… Continue reading
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Writing Horror
I haven’t written a lot of horror. I’ve written a lot of horrible things (in quality and content), but it’s mostly about the horror of the situation the character is in, rather than the scare factor. Or maybe that’s “thriller”?… Continue reading
Hopfield is Writing 