Scott D. Parker: Writer

How are your New Year’s Resolutions coming along? I saw a statistic that said by today—Day 36 of 2023—a shocking 80% or more people have alr...

Are you ready for 2023? I’m a firm believer in constant renewal, be that daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly resets. That is, after all, what ...

She had me with five words: The Thin Man in space. Still, I hadn’t read the book yet so I honestly waffled over whether or no to attend Mary...

Remember back on Memorial Day when I wrote a post about The Great Summer Writing Season? I said that in the 97 days between Memorial Day an...

Where has this book been all my writing life? Well, right in front of me, the entire time. I’ve known about Steven Pressfield for a good num...

The year 2022 has been rather productive even if that productivity hasn’t always generated new words. It has, apparently, yielded greater cl...

Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote a post about finding time to write ? The thrust of the piece was that there are lots of little chunks ...

You don’t find the time to write. You make time to write. That’s an adage I’ve held onto for years. I firmly believe that if you truly want ...

Can you be a writer without using paper? I’m a writer and I use a lot of paper. I make notes on yellow legal pads, I make lists of character...

How’s the book coming along? Today is Day 6 of NaNoWriMo (although for me, it’s still Day 5). If you’ve kept up the daily 1,667 words pace, ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to my cousin and he asked about any upcoming books I’ve written. I mentioned “Ghost Town Gambit,” t...

There must be something in the air this week, because a good number of the writers I follow on Twitter had writing challenges. I did, too, b...

The NFL season kicked off on Thursday of this week, but I was already prepared because of Peter King. For many years now, a NFL weekend is n...

Over at DoSomeDamage, I read Jay's blog from yesterday and I thoroughly enjoyed his bonus content where he posted a video of him reading...

How do you keep going?  On anything.  If you're a runner, you lace up the shoes, don your favorite running clothes, maybe grab your phon...

We writers know all about the vicissitudes of writing prose, the good, the bad, the frustrating, and the glorious. Most of us know that for ...

How often do you restart a novel you’ve set aside? I am an obsessive saver of things when it comes to my writing. I’ve got paper and digital...

When it comes to deleting text from you work in progress, do you up and delete it or do you save it? I’m revising the existing chapters of m...

I think it's common knowledge that a good rule of thumb for reviewing your own work is to read it aloud. I do it all the time. I find ...

How do you know when something you’ve written or planned out is good? That’s my question for the weekend, folks. Thanks! Okay, I’m kidding, ...