Recent content by Addison

For novels, you have the first five pages to hook and engage the reader. But what about short stories? Or Novelettes? Novellas? In a short story I'd say you have the first page, or the first X words. For Novelettes and Novellas, Maybe the first two pages or a word count. What do you guys think?

When I finished my short story "Letter To Regret" I didn't have a cover in mind. I kinda had the color scheme but not exactly a cover image. So I used the cover creator to help. While their image library has all kinds of images, they were all missing the bullseye by an annoyingly close margin...

I just hit "publish" on Amazon Kindle for my story "Letter to Regret"! Oh my god so anxious, and excited, and terrified. Oh my god!

Hello everyone! I'm excited and anxious to announce that I'll soon be publishing two stories this month! The first will be published this Friday, the sixteenth. Titled "Letter To Regret". The summary: Amber wrote a letter to her regrets as a therapeutic release. She never expected for an...

Today I'm close to finishing a short story first draft. But I was a little anxious about my word length. It's currently 7,700 words. I typed "Short story word length" in google search. Wikipedia says a short story is under 7500 words, and a NOVEL is as short as 40,000 words. Yeah I leaned closer...

It's human nature to feel guilty even when you're in the right. Whether it's beating a friend or co-worker for a promotion, reporting your brother for a crime, or causing physical injury(or death) in self-defense. It's a sign of having humanity, compassion. Of course everyone feels guilty about...

I will soon be reading "Murder and Magic: Lord Darcy Book 1" by Randall Garrett. From my research he's the first author to write an urban fantasy where magic and man openly coexist in our world. Although it will be a race to see which book arrives first, Lord Darcy or the first in Mercedes...

I love sketches. That is beautiful work.

This is so nuts I have to post this. My kid brother has been playing video games for hours. I suck at that game so I did not participate, instead allowing my brother's buddy and my kid sister to participate in the digital torture. First of all, video games-not nukes or cyber virus-will be the...

I had a bad slump lasting several months. At some points it felt more like borderline insanity but, looking back, a slump. Everyone falls into a slump for different reasons and can pull themselves out in their own way. My cure is deadlines. During my slump I just woke up and wrote whenever an...

Lol. :D I just published my second blog on my site. Thursday is blog day. I gotta say once I set up a calendar of deadlines I've gone from flakey writer, to disciplined writer. The last time I felt this proud...I can't remember. I've graduated college, I have a job, yet this feels better than...

Stopped by my library yesterday. After focusing on writing for X days and hitting a stall, I needed a book bundle. I've checked out: Carrie, Joyland, Howl's Moving Castle, Coraline, The Eyes of The Dragon, The Sea Of Trolls, The Magicians. When my dad saw the books his jaw dropped and he...

To Tweet, or not to Tweet, that is the question.

I updated my wordpress package and updated my site. Take a look, tell me what you think. Be detailed and honest, please.

A long over due introduction. Hi there! While my avatar says Addison my real name is Adrien. The former is easier for toddlers to pronounce, which is why for a short period my kid siblings called me Addison, nearly starting an identity crisis. I've been writing since I was eight. After...