Over the years, I rewrote the Toolkit every six months, adding all I was learning about writing.  The Toolkit ended up being 80,000 words long and was published by Writer’s Digest in 2001.  It earned out in less than six months and had a great run.

Last year I updated both books extensively, partly because I’ve grown as a writer and now an independent author. But also because today’s publishing environment has changed and with that change has come the ability to update books to meet the changing needs of today’s successful writers.  The Novel Writers Toolkit now focuses 100% on the craft of writing.  I removed the business section because that belongs in the other book, formerly Warrior Writer, which I renamed Write It Forward: From Writer To Successful Author.

One key thing I added in the Toolkit was a section on Conflict, especially the Conflict Box.  I put in all I’ve learned in the past several years.  I have to say I believe I’ve learned more about writing in the past two years than in my first twenty.

In the Toolkit, I teach how to answer key questions about your book including:

Can you state what your book is about in one sentence?

Do you clearly have conflict lock between protagonist and antagonist?

Do you know where your ‘camera’ is when you write each scene?  i.e. Point of View?  Do you know when you’ve done a cut?

Do you know all your characters’ primary motivations, their motivation leveles, and their blind spot?

Write It Forward is the sum of what I’ve learned in 20 years of traditional publishing and two years as an indie author and publisher.  I made many mistakes over the years and I wrote this book to keep others from making the same mistakes.  I’ve included where I believe publishing is now and where it’s going.  I also focus on helping writers sort out their own path to Oz, given that each of us are starting from a different place and our vision of Oz is unique to each of us.

For example, can you answer these questions, which Write It Forward poses as exercises and then teaches you how to answer:

What is my strategic goal as a writer?  Where do you want to be in five years?

I’ll do anything to succeed as a writer, except don’t ask me to do . . . . ?

My greatest fear as a writer is?

How high is your ‘imposter syndrome’ as a writer?

Are you in command of your writing career or are you counting on an agent or editor?

Do you know where you stand on the three P’s: Platform, product and promotion?

Both books focus on building the complete writer:  one who masters the craft of writing into being an artist, and one who develops their work into being a career writer.

Reference the Novel Writers Toolkit

“A book to inspire, instruct and challenge the writer in everyone.”
#1 NY Times Best-Selling Author Susan Wiggs

“An invaluable resource for beginning and seasoned writers alike. Don’t miss out.”
#1 NY Times Best-Selling Author Terry Brooks

“Something for every writer, from neophyte to old hand. My hat is off to Bob.” Best-Selling Myster Writer Elizabeth George

Reference Write It Forward

“I have always loved how your programs delved deeply into the psychological models you need to develop characters. No you are using that to develop people.” Co-Creator of the Chicken Soup Books Jack Canfield

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The Brenda Novak Auction for Diabetes is probably the largest one I’ve seen, and it’s done every year with some fantastic prizes and packages.

I always try to help promote when someone is trying to raise money for a cause. Like Blogger Laurie who’s trying raise money with a cancer walk. (You can pledge her here…c’mon even $5? ). Now I know Laurie, so I knew about her fundraising efforts a while ago, but last night I saw a link on twitter from Independant bookstore owner Rosemary Potter that made me want to shout out all over the internet.

Rosemary’s Romance in australia has been a huge supporter of all sub-genres of romantic fiction for along time. Rosemary herself is a warm and wonderful woman who I was lucky enough to meet at a Romantic Times Conference a couple years ago, and I’m eager to help her out in any way I can.

Anyway, my point, and what I wanted to shout out is for everyone to click on THIS LINK and vote for Rosemary’s Romance This bank is giving away $40,000 in small business grants, and your vote could help this independent bookstore get some of that!

So… this post today is to both to say how proud I am to be part of a community that always tries to help each other out whenever possible, and to share the link and urge everyone to take a minute out of their day and vote to help support a bookstore that has always been a huge supporter of my favorite genre of fiction-romance.

*** In case you missed it… CLICK THIS LINK TO GO VOTE ***

I didn’t get a lick of work done that day, but you know what?  I still felt super-productive at the end of it.

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The second week of every month is theme week here at Genreality.Net and this month’s theme is blogging.

I have a blog that I used to use over at www.livejournal.com called Discombobulated Pensivity in the Doublewide of Life.  I’m sure to resurrect it once I’ve gotten a blog built into the website (which I’ve had an offer to help build here in WordPress and just haven’t finished sorting out the details) but it was getting hard to keep up with.  So I started relying heavily on Facebook as my primary tool for frequently connecting with readers online — along with my friends and family.  I like the way it works, though I’m not sure I’ll keep feeling that way once I’m pulled into the vortex that is Timeline.  Still, I’m a technophobe and FB is really user friendly.  But it has limitations — like a cap on friends — and I find myself every-so-often unexcited about their approach to privacy and the constant sense of having to police after my settings.

On Facebook, I try to post three to five status updates per day — some are links, some are photos, some are updates on book progress or what I’m doing.  And then I post longer “notes” sporadically.

And of course I blog here weekly on writing or the writer’s life.  That gives me a set day — Saturdays — and I found early on that it was far more manageable to have a weekly blog in the madness and pandemonium that is my life.

But there is so much more that I could do.  And I’m hoping as life settles down a bit and I move into the land of being full time, I can have a more impactful social media presence and strategy.  For now, I’m doing pretty bare-minimum work.

That’s the blogging I’m up to.   As for the blogs that I read:  Well, I scan my agent’s and editor’s blogs periodically.  And I scan most of my friends’ blogs even less than that unless there’s something specific going on that I want to check on — I’m just too busy.  My life BARELY lets me leverage the words I need, let alone read everything I’d like to read.  But I manage to read Jay Lake’s blog every day.  And I rob his link salad nearly daily for my own updates because he and I frequently land on the same side of most issues and he always, always finds interesting, cool stuff out there.

And that’s Trailer Boy on blogging.  Have a good Saturday.  Play nicely.

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I find I’m much more circumspect than I used to be. Part of it is I’ve just run out of topics. It turns out there is a limit to how many cute pics you can post of your puppy before you feel like you’re just exploiting her. And though I have many Thoughts on Craft and Industry, I’m sure no one wants to hear me extolling the virtues of the synopsis yet again. Book reviews are right out, book recommendations can start getting sticky, and book giveaways become exhausting (Man, I hate the post office.) It’s difficult even to discuss writing pet peeves, as your readers will invariably decide that you’re picking on a particular book (even if it’s one you aren’t familiar with at all).

I used to talk about my manuscript progress. I don’t do that anymore; because if and when (mostly when) things get thorny, I have an unfortunate tendency to sound melodramatic about it — “the book is broken, the sky is falling, I’m a terrible writer, why would anyone ever want to read me?” My readers, who I am attempting to induce to read my next book, probably don’t want to hear me whining about how awful it is, and me whining about how awful it all is is apparently an Official Part of my Process.

(In passing, don’t you hate the term “My Process?” It sounds so pretentious. “I’m an artiste. This is My Process!” Blecch.)

It’s also so easy to miscommunicate things — the informality of a blog post combined with the “official” nature of an author’s website appear to make the perfect storm of potential misunderstanding. Offhand comments can be taken as The Word From On High. Jokes are taken seriously. People skim, or alternately, people read Deeper Meanings into whatever you say. A short and by no means exhaustive list of things I have inadvertently misled readers about over the course of my blog:

1. That a badly photoshopped, clearly jokey “fake” cover stealing images from The Last Unicorn cartoon was an actual bookcover of mine.
2.  That a badly photoshopped, clearly jokey “fake” cover that was an 80s style bodice ripper (complete with tattered edges) was an actual bookcover of my YA.
3. That a badly photoshopped — well, let’s just say my whole “fake Rampant cover” series did not go over well — irony does not always read on a blog. Even my mother in law got tripped up by one of them.
4. That my husband was actually my gay roommate, Will & Grace style. (this particular reader was shocked when I blogged about getting married).
5. That I was pregnant. (When I wasn’t and a few times when I was and being sneaky about it — my MIL again.)
6. That I was not pregnant. (Given the aforementioned sneakies.)
7. That I was having a movie made from my book.
8. That I was writing a sequel to The Hunger Games. (?!?!)
9. An announcement that I’d be speaking in the “Hong Kong” room in a hotel at a conference made someone think I was going to be speaking at a Hong Kong location of that hotel chain.
10. An attempt to be as transparent as possible to other aspiring authors about what the revision process looks like got an editor in trouble about the format of her revision letters.
11. An attempt to be as transparent as possible about the plans for continuing an ongoing series led to rampant (pun intended) speculation about completely fictional fights, threats, and disappointments between myself and my publisher.
12. That the aforementioned cute puppy had died.

And that doesn’t even cover the arguments I’ve waded into!

On the other hand, my blog is to account for some of my greatest joys in my career. It was through a blog post that I first met my good friend and critique partner Justine Larbalestier. Regular readers of my blog have become virtual friends. One came to the launch party of my first book and then, years later, with the wisdom of a fellow new mom, somehow read between the lines of my blog when I was pregnant and sent me a handmade baby blanket. Another keeps me in book and Canadian television recommendations, and we hang out on Pinterest talking about wedding decor. A third cajoled me into joining SFWA.

My blog readers have helped me when my garden was in trouble, when my dog has been sick, and when I needed to geek out with someone about my latest book release and my husband (who was a good sport about the whole “gay roommate” thing) got tired of hearing me speculate on what my secondary characters’ favorite foods were. My blog has been a place where I’ve experimented with form, invited other writers to experiment with voice, and given out freebies and extras to my readers. And that whole “fake cover” thing may have been confusing to some, but I had a blast with it and those readers who got the joke enjoyed it too.

Nowadays, my blog is just one part of a big web of social networking. I love Twitter — I Twitter daily, even when I don’t have time for a whole blog post. Twitter conversations can spark blogs and vice versa. I recently discovered Tumblr, which fulfills a different need entirely and which I often use to post on the fly inspirational photos and such of my works in progress. Because it’s on tumblr instead of my official blog, I feel like I can be a little more open with my works in progress (I’m usually excessively circumspect on my blog). However, I recently learned I’m not in the clear there, either. I was contacted by a reader who was super confused about the pictures I was posting of the heroine of the manuscript I’m writing now and how different they were from the descriptions of the heroine in the book I’ve got coming out next month. Gah. Informality strikes again.

For me, blogging is a fun outlet. When it stops being fun, I take breaks. I honestly don’t know what the solution to pitfalls like these are. A lot of writers I know who get frustrated by these setbacks and mishaps just cut off all social media completely. I enjoy blogging, though. I like giving back to the writing community in the form of industry and craft posts, and I like giving back to my readers in the form of Easter eggs, extras, and giveaways. It’s not a perfect system, I suppose, but until I see a better one…

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That was then. Today my blogging habits are quite different. I’m much more careful about the blogs I visit. Much of the kerfluffle stuff – you know, the “this author is behaving badly” stuff – while intriguing can derail my productivity. I now go to a few places, but not nearly as regularly as I used to. My blogging habits have changed over time. I’ve thought, more than once, about shutting down the blog or turning it into a diary where I post now and then but not with any certianty. Just when I decide it’s time to stop, I think of a bunch of things I want to say and I keep it running.

It’s interesting that the subject matter on my blog has also changed. I still talk about industry stuff, but I’m more guarded. After a few times of saying something and experiencing the fallout I decided I didn’t have the time or energy to enter into angry debates. Who does? That stuff is exhausting. Again, it can be interesting to read but adding up the writing time lost while wading through comments is depressing.

I also remember hearing Nora Roberts talk about blogging. She said something like: I write for a living and don’t write for free. I’m not sure I agree with that completely, but I do know that I make a living from writing, so I need to weigh the time I spend on fun blogging versus book writing. Yeah, I get the promo value of blogging. I also enjoy blogging, which is why I’m thrilled to be included in this group blog, but there are only so many hours in a day. Any chance one of those internet/social media inventor gurus is out there trying to add time to the day? Now that’s something I could support.

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When I look at someone’s blog as a writer, if they haven’t posted in a week, I figure it’s not important to them, so therefore it’s not important.  I’ve found that after three days, traffic to my blog drops considerably.  That’s why Jen Talty and I alternate, with each of us posting once a week; myself in Tuesday and Jen on Friday.  It’s a large commitment of time and energy but it’s part of our platform at Write It Forward.

Jenny Crusie and I used a blog very efficiently several years ago when we, in essence, wrote a book using the He Wrote/She Wrote format.  I think this is a good idea if you have a nonfiction book you want to write.  Write it on your blog.  But I do not recommend posting your fiction on your blog.

One of the greatest uses of blogging is to go to OTHER people’s blogs and leave cogent comments.  This is a good way of becoming known to those bloggers as we all read our own comments.  I’ve been invited to present at major industry events because I went to someone’s blog and left comments that made sense and supported a platform they found intriguing.

I do a couple of group blogs, like this one.  I also blog on the third Sunday of the month at WG2E.  I think doing this extends my reach.

To be honest, there are times I feel like I’m running out of things to say.  I’ve examined publishing and writing extensively over the years.  In fact, many of my blogs end up in my books, such as The ShelfLess Book: The Complete Digital Author.  About half that book were blogs that I pulled, put in order, and rewrote.

I believe the key to a good blog is knowing what your platform is going to be before you start blogging.  How do you want to come off to people?  Why would they come back to blog?  Are you informing AND entertaining?

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Blogs are a funny thing.  I feel like they’ve completely replaced the Dear Diary of generations gone by. Pretty much anyone over the age of has a blog of some sort, where they post their daily rambling about school, food, sports, sex, relationships, politics, religion, books, movies, music, cars, war, peace, rallies, government and business.  The list is really only limited to the imaginations of the blogger in question.

And sometimes, only that blogger has any idea what the hell they’re talking about.  I’ve read blogs that needed a secret decoder ring to understand the hidden meaning buried in the page after page of rambling text.  I’ve frequented blogs that are as short as a sentence per post and the meaning was much deeper than other who write volumes.

Blogging is an individual sport that, like most things, is completely and utterly a matter of taste.

My buddy Jay Lake can blog three thousand words a day on top of writing another twenty-five hundred words of prose, plus his regular email, day jobbery, etc.

I struggle to blog, frankly.  I’m an introvert who suffers from the notion that my daily goings on are probably too boring to be foisted upon the reading public.  I do blog, just infrequently and with great purpose.  I have to be moved by a topic on most cases, or I find myself bored with posting.

Funny thing is, when I’m guest blogging that totally flips for me.  I love guest blogging.  I feel like I’m funnier, more salient and generally enjoy the experience.  I have deadlines, I know when I’m supposed to write something and frequently I’ll have a topic or theme to work with.  This makes it oh, so much easier for me to blog.

On my own blog, I’m in charge of the content, I’m in charge of the deadline, and without that external driver, I just don’t blog frequently.  I’d love to have the drive of John Scalzi or Elizabeth Bear.  I’d love to be as funny as Jim Hines or gee whiz informational as IO9 or Boing Boing.

I’m a fiction writer.  I spend my days in the soup of story and character.  I think about Norse gods and giants, black smiths and social ramifications of killing dragons in a modern world.  Thinking about something to post on my blog rarely surfaces through the layer upon layer of story I carry around in my head.  So, thankfully, there are awesome blogs like Genreality, Tor.com, Grasping for the Wind, SF Signal, SFFWorld, Ranting Dragon, the Skiffy and Fanty Show (also a podcast) and a whole host of book bloggers, science bloggers, culture warriors, political wonks and generalists to keep me and the world entertained and informed.  Unfortunately they could also take every ounce of free time I have and keep me fascinated and engaged — but not writing.  I have to strike a balance between curiosity and obsession.

But the fiction comes first after the day job, the family and a modicum of sleep. Blogging is a lower priority for me, but once I’ve done it, I’m always relieved.  It’s a great feeling expressing oneself publicly. I just need to make sure my fly is buttoned and I have my sunscreen on before stepping into the limelight.

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Blogging as been such an amazing thing for so many writers.  Some, like John Scalzi, broke in through their blogs, and others, like Catherynne Valente, have built tremendously supportive audiences and communities with their blogs.  I enjoy reading blogs and feeling like I’m part of a larger community.  I mostly read the blogs of other writers.  It’s a way to keep up with the community and convince myself that I’m not alone and crazy and so on.   But I have to watch myself, and resist the urge to compare myself to others, which reading their blogs makes so easy to do.  I also read blogs for research — have a certain kind of character or a profession or topic you want the inside scoop on?  Chances are, someone’s keeping a blog on it.

I started my own blog on June 8, 2007.  As a data point, this was almost two years after my first novel appeared on bookshelves.  So, I’m a firm believer that blogging is not an absolute requirement for professional fiction authors.  Do it if you want to, if you enjoy it.  And most importantly, I think:  do it if you have a plan.

Why didn’t I blog for such a long time?  And why did I change my mind?  I avoided blogging for a long time because I didn’t want my blog to turn into a confessional online journal (that’s what my bedside diary is for).  I didn’t want to spend the time on it.  I knew I didn’t have what it takes to maintain a blog of the caliber of John Scalzi’s Whatever (one of my favorite SF writer blogs) — posting every day, writing intelligently on a variety of topics, presenting a charismatic persona.  So I figured, why do it at all?  Then, for a brief time I wrote for a now-defunct science fiction blog.  The venture as a whole didn’t work out, but I found I enjoyed the outlet, discussing way-out topics, reviewing movies, and so on.  And I discovered I could keep up a schedule of writing several posts a week.

I decided to start my own blog when I figured out how to do it on my own terms, rather than trying to emulate other blogs.  The science fiction blog taught me how to set parameters on what I write about.  I realized I didn’t have to replicate Whatever.  This would be my own outlet, strictly for fun, and maybe my readers would enjoy getting a peek into my world.  And I could avoid very personal topics.  That was ultimately the theme I set for myself:  what’s life like for a full-time writer?  What goes into my writing?  What do I love, and how does that translate into stories?  Hence, my blog’s title:  Filling the Well.  Another of my parameters:  I didn’t want to blog every day.  So you know what?  I don’t.  For a long time, I tried to blog every other day.  Over the last year, I’ve moved to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule, giving myself weekends off, and that’s been great.  I like that.  (I wrote about my reasons to start blogging in one of my first posts.)

It was year or so after starting my own blog that Sasha invited me to join Genreality, and I jumped at the chance, because one of the things I avoided on my own blog was writing too much about the mechanics of writing, the how-to, the obstacles, and so on.  This was something I learned from reading other people’s blogs:  if you only write about writing on your blog, it gets real boring real fast.  A big chuck of my target audience out there aren’t writers, and don’t care.  But a group blog with the specific, designated topic of being about the nitty gritty of writing, with lots of different authors contributing their perspective?  That’s where I could write about niggling writing stuff.  And it’s worked!  I now have an outlet for writing topics without turning my own blog into all-writing-all-the-time.  It’s that plan and parameters thing again.

My advice for starting a blog:  have a plan, have parameters.  Study other blogs and make note of what you like and what you don’t.  But my biggest advice of all may be:  if you don’t want to write a blog, then don’t.  That’s okay too.

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It’s been a helluva time around here.  I was four or five weeks ahead on my blog posts and barreling ahead on the last act of my fourth novel when the fickle finger of fate intervened yet again.  Four weeks ago, my stepmom fell ill and within days she was in hospice.  She passed peacefully, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, the Monday after Easter.

I’ve faced a LOT of death in my life.  And just in the last five years, my wife and I — between our two families — have lost eight people.  Four parents, two aunts, a nephew and a grandmother.  That’s a lot.

The funny thing about death is that it forces you to think about life.  And so I’ve been living out a John Denver song in my head, minus the muppets.  ”I’ve been lately thinking about my life’s time….”

Over the course of that same five years, I’ve also become a novelist, become represented, landed a five book contract and written four books of a five book series and a handful of short stories, novelettes and novellas.  Not bad for a kid from a trailer.

And over the course of that SAME five years…well, nearly three…I’ve become a parent to two of the most amazing human beings I’ve ever studied in the wild.

Now, we all knew it was going to be a pretty full plate.  We didn’t know about the losses and all that they would bring to the party.  And we didn’t expect Nature’s grand twofer deal but all in all, we’ve fared well.  Lots of goodbyes and some very important hellos.  I’m really glad I waited to have kids, despite the energy trade off of being 44 and a new Dad.  I’ve had time to gain perspective about life…particularly through the lens of all the losses.   It’s made it even more clear to me that the most important investment of my time, resources, energy are my daughters.

And its made it even more clear to me that I work too hard.  I have an amazing dayjob working with great people, but even with my hours reduced to 32, it equates out to 11 hours days once I count my commute.  What could I do with that 11 hours?

A lot.  I could get back to the balanced life I believe is best for us humans, including that family time.  I could get adequate sleep and rest.  Maybe get time to read a book every week.  And with better rest and sleep and more focus, my output will increase.  My introverted needs will also be better met, cutting out all of the “peopling” that is a part of my dayjob, leaving me with the energy to take on teaching a few night classes per year at one of our nearby community colleges.

So we’ve been talking a lot since January about a Trailer Boy Strategy for Becoming a Full Time Writer.

And today, I’m going to share that strategy with you.

My goal is to be a full time writer by September 2014, when the girls go into Kindergarten.  I have two years and some change to get there, give or take.  Here are some factors that should make that possible:

1)  I have a working spouse.  This can’t be over-emphasized.  I think barring unusual circumstances (like runaway bestsellers and blockbuster movies), most writers either need dayjobs, working spouses, or some other form of income or savings over the course of their careers and certainly at the beginning.  The writing by itself can certainly make money, but it takes time and it trickles in from a lot of different rivers.  And there’s no health insurance for writers typically unless you pay for a plan of your own or have someone working with benefits.  So going full time for me hinges on Jen’s career and the benefits tied to it.

2)  I have two little people who will no longer need daycare.  It’s the cost of a mortgage basically.  And since a big part of going full time as a writer is about getting more time with my kids, I don’t mind the idea at all of being the Dad-on-duty who gets them to and from Kindergarten.

3) I have a series that earned out the advance for all five books by the time the third book was in hardcover for a few months.  So I’m already getting royalties — not tons but it’ll grow as I finish the series (there are spikes in numbers for each book that comes out — domestic and then my share of the foreign rights advances.)  And if you know anything about advances, you’ll realize that I also still have advance money due from Tor — they come to us when we turn in a book and when the book comes out.  So I have committed revenue over the next two years from those advances as I finish the series.

4)  I’m nearly finished with my series, which means within the next year I’ll be figuring out a next project and, whenever the time is right, ideally landing a contract for it.  I know whatever I do will be a slightly smaller project than five books, but I do like writing in multi-book series.  And because the Psalms of Isaak is enjoying some relative success (not huge numbers but the fans who love it are verbal about it and it’s gotten a lot of critical acclaim) I hope to tap that success by including at least one P of I related book in whatever my next pitch is.

5) Under relatively normal circumstances I have good work habits and discipline.  I know how much I can write when my brain isn’t fogged with grief or exhaustion and I have a plan for diversifying my writing business into other mediums beyond books and short stories — and to add teaching occasionally to my list.

So with all of that in mind, our plan over the next two years is to reduce our debt load to a place where, without the debt and without the daycare bill, we can afford to have me home spinning tales (and cash) out of my imagination.  Our goal is get two years of operating revenue into the bank so that I have a runway to work  from and then…off I go into the Wild Blue Yonder!

Now, the best laid plans of mice and Ken are just that.  I’ve learned enough from the last five years to know that plans can and will be interrupted by life (or death) as often as not.  But this is the goal and direction I’m setting.  I think it’s solid.

So here’s the part where you can help:  Buy my books.

Next week is theme week here at Genreality and it’s on…blogging!  By then, I also might be done with Requiem.  Woot!

And now, I’m going to meditate and reflect upon my soon-coming trip to the Scappoose Cinema 7 to see Avengers in 3D.

Avengers…assemble!  Trailer Boy out.

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