Scott D. Parker: Writer

Well, by my own definition, I’m officially in my mid-fifties. For any given decade, I consider the years ending in zero through three to be ...

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 ...

Here in the United States, summer officially begins today, Memorial Day. It ends 97 days later on Labor Day, 5 September.  I know it is a gr...

It was now nine years ago today that I made a renewed decision to write more stories. I had an idea that began with an image—a man, wearing ...

A cool thing happened this week: a writer lived out a dream. Marc Bernardin—writer, TV producer, journalist, co-host of the Fatman Beyond po...

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...

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 ...

Today, my wife and I turn twenty-two and we have reached that stage in a marriage when we get joint gifts.  My wife is an accomplished jewel...

Here in the US, every new president is judged by what he does in his first one hundred days. It harkens back to 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt...

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...

Two years ago, Mike Flanagan delivered The Haunting of Hill House, a horror show with a great emotional center I never saw coming . Now, in ...

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 ...

Should I or shouldn't I re-read a completed manuscript before picking it back up again to work on it? I debated with myself for longer t...

Hey! Back to words and not a video. Why? Dunno, really. Just felt like typing some thoughts rather than speaking them. Keeping a Record S...

Kind of an ironic question to ask in a blog post, huh? Well, I have my answer, but let me tell you why I pose it. A Conversation A good...

First off, I have enjoyed being a geek who has seen very little of this series. It just didn't do it for me. My wife enjoys it and, up...

It's all in the details. Proofing the Hardcopy of Aztec Sword Always, always order a hard copy of your books printed by Amazon. W...

Yesterday, I wrote about controlling the controllables . That is, don’t fret about those things over which you have zero control. I listed...