Not in real life, unfortunately. We're talking about book (of course).

What’s the proper order of descriptions? And when are you supposed to tell readers how tall a character is? These are the questions I never knew I’d have.

After 103 weeks in a row of publishing the weekly newsletter I took a week off. These are the doubts I had about the merit of recording the creative process of a first time novelist. Until I realized, this is the ultimate drama…because we have have no idea how it’s going to end.

This is a recent conversation I had with a friend on the nature and purpose of creativity. We tried to examine the question: How do you offer your own experience as context to discuss the greater human condition?

Examining with a microscope how Lee Child writes character movement and gestures in his novels.

Dissecting the Lee Child novel, ‘Make Me’ to try and see exactly how the author does his craft.

I’ve got two theories.

Why the best book on writing (‘The Elements of Style’) is a lifestyle and not a manual

The best marketing is writing a good book….but here are 2 cover designs I’m toying with. Which do you like better? Please vote inside!

What is a book coach? I’m looking into it and this is and where I’m applying for one.

I’ve noticed my blog posts and videos over the past couple months have the same recurring theme – keep showing up - like a broken record. I’m recognizing that it’s been a subliminal message to myself.

Here’s why I think I’ve been saying it and something we can do together about Day 1.

As long as I have patience to work on a 10-year horizon (and more) I don’t have to get stressed that I don’t have results or recognition now, or next month, or this year. And It’ll be ok to show up everyday for a long time without anything external seeming to change. It’ll be ok to show up and just do the work.

The first draft is complete at 40,000 words and I was given another nugget of help by the subconscious.

Your body knows more than you do, so be sure to always listen.

Whenever I get stuck I write some god awful scenes with two of my characters taking a long walk until they figure out what the hell is going on.

I’ll cut 99% of these scenes in the next draft but I’ll never get there if I stop writing.

A month from now you won’t even know which writing was done on days that felt good and which writing was done on days that felt like a struggle.

I’m reading Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Rebel Without A Crew’ which is basically his blog-style account of how he made is first film, El Mariachi for $7,000 when he was in film school.

So I’m doing my own version as I go about figuring out how to write my first novel.