Scott D. Parker: Writer

If you've ever wanted to know how I went about the process of writing my Harry Truman novel, head on over to my column at Do Some Damag...

As many of y'all know, NaNoWriMo kicks off tomorrow. In theory, you are supposed to write a 50,000 page novel in the 30 days of Novembe...

Just last week, a co-worker of mine asked me about my progress with my writing career...and he didn't mean my technical writing career. ...

Over at my fiction blogsite , I have now posted Chapter 1 of my first novel, Treason at Hanford: A Harry Truman mystery. For a first-time au...

It occurred to me over the weekend that I keep referencing my novels, the one I have finished (Treason at Hanford: A Harry Truman Mystery) a...

In the words of Agent Maxwell Smart: "Missed it by that much." My second book, Justice in H-Town, missed the cut for the Writer...

Up until now, I have written only two things that were longer than 100 pages. The first was my thesis in college and the second was my Truma...

Critique groups are the reason I am writing novels today. That's how important I think they are in shaping my writing and your writing. ...

Over at Murderati , Pari Noskin Taichert writes about her new Eee PC. She sums up the reason why she bought the mini PC: " In short, I...

Over at Murderati , the blog about crime fiction and the business of crime fiction, Brett Battles posted an interesting entry entitled ...

Over the weekend, I attended the spring workshop for the Ft. Bend Writer's Guild . The speaker was Ron Rozelle . And it was great. I hig...

Since my last entry, I've only written about 400+ new words. As of today, I'm stopping the old/new words list. It's now just tot...

I got some great feedback from my writing group last night. I gave them my new Chapter 2. NNWM Word count = 3500 Total word count = 11,400

During my lunch hour, I banged out my new chapter 2 and revised my old chapter 3. Remember: I am only counting *new* words for the sake of t...

Okay, so I did not get off to a good *writing* start. I have yet to write a *new* word. (I say "New word" because, as I mentioned,...

Well, it turns out that the rut was deeper than I expected. No sooner than I had two great ideas and a method for my approach to the writing...

There seem to be two main enemies that writers face: Writer’s Block and Motivation. I have never had a problem with the former. In fact, I h...

Over the weekend, I attended the Ft. Bend Writer's Conference. It was a wonderful day and I met some great folks (Hey Dawn and Joe!). Th...

My friend Doug has written about his current state of Non-Writing-Ness over at his blog . He talks about the differences in writing that fir...

Later on, when I finish my next novel, I can credit both my friend, Victoria Graydale, and Elmore Leonard for getting me off the snide and w...