Hello! FYI, this blog is woefully out-of-date and no longer actively maintained. For more recent news & updates, you can navigate to my author page at timhoelscherauthor.com or hit me up at my new venture, gavagai.com , where I post as @gavagai and @timhoelscherauthor.com. I might return here to post again sometime in the future, but for now these things are taking up most of my time.

Taking a break from writing-related stuff this post to talk about a nasty new(ish) disease/allergy I was diagnosed with a couple of years...

Software development takes on the plotter vs. pantser divide. There are two major schools of thought when it comes to writing a long...

Sometimes filter words are okay, but most of the time they're not. If you've been writing for a while, you probably know about filter...