R J ClarkOct 29, 20203 minSpooky reads for Halloween!With the days growing shorter and the season of the witch nearly upon us, I thought it was the perfect time to revisit some of my...
R J ClarkAug 28, 20202 minProduct Review: Page One-the writer's notebookIs the Page One notebook a writer's most essential low-tech tool? When it comes to what I like to call "prep work" on a new project, like...
R J ClarkAug 24, 20204 minNavigating creativity in the age of COVID-19Depending on what you did for a living in the days before the pandemic, chances are your daily routine has been altered. Maybe you no...
R J ClarkAug 6, 20203 minProduct Review: Fabula Deck If you're a writer on social media, no doubt you've been solicited by ads promising to teach you a secret but proven and a surefire...
R J ClarkAug 6, 20203 minMy Favorite Quarantine Reads, volume 1If you're anything like me, you're using the quarantine as a time to catch up on reading and forge ahead on writing. And if you're not...
R J ClarkApr 29, 20204 minMaster the art of writing as a practiceTo write every day, or not—that seems to be the question most "writers" ask. The answer to one of the most asked questions in the...
R J ClarkDec 13, 20193 minMy Favorite Reads of 2019With just a few weeks left in 2019, I'd like to give a shout-out to a few of my absolute favorite reads of the year (so far) and just...
R J ClarkDec 6, 20195 min'Tis the Season... (to forgive all of your non-writing shenanigans)A new year and a new decade are less than a month away! Yeah, I can't fecking believe it, either, but here we are. This is the perfect...
R J ClarkNov 8, 20192 minOh, the horror!It's really hard to believe that my debut novel, Far From Grace, is now only eleven months away from publication! People have asked me if...
R J ClarkOct 2, 20191 minRed alert! Official title reveal!This is not a drill! I repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The time has come to reveal the title of my debut novel. Awww, yeah! Chick a bow wow....
R J ClarkAug 27, 20192 minHey, how you doin'?It's been a bit since I posted a new blog, but things have been anything but uneventful over here! Let's catch up. Shall we? Last year,...
R J ClarkAug 27, 20191 minWriting Book of the Month: Summer"Have You Eaten Grandma?" by Gyles Brandreth HYEG is a grammar and usage book that's an awful lot of fun to read. It's not very often...
R J ClarkFeb 12, 20192 minWriting Book of the Month: February"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer Benjamin Dreyer is the executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, which makes his...
R J ClarkJan 15, 20192 minInspiration versus PerspirationArt isn't easy, but is it one part inspiration and ninety-nine parts perspiration, or the other way around? How would you define...
R J ClarkJan 1, 20191 minSet your 2019 goals now!2019 is now less than four hours away — if you're on the East Coast in the US, like me! Let's put the setbacks and failures of 2018...
R J ClarkDec 31, 20185 min6 things I learned writing my first novelOr, How I Wrote My First Novel Without Losing My Sanity!* (most of my sanity) This year, over the course of four arduous months, I wrote...
R J ClarkDec 27, 20182 minWriting Book of the Month: December"Story Trumps Structure" by Steven James If November's writing book of the month was a gift for the plotters out there, then December's...
R J ClarkDec 4, 20182 minFavorite bit of writing advice?The work is hard. Let's be honest — it's really hard. How many times have you sat down and toiled away on several pages only to throw...
R J ClarkNov 15, 20182 minWhat are you willing to give up?Aside from "writer's block," the most cited cause for not writing among writers is... drum roll, please... "I just don't have time to...
R J ClarkNov 12, 20182 minWriting Book of the Month: November"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel" by Jessica Brody I will always have a soft-spot for Save the Cat! and the late Blake Snyder. For the...
