KL Forslund

Another month’s distance from the original idea, and I’ve added a chunk of story complication and action. Who Wants to be a Technomage? (v3) Two minutes afte...

A month ago, I shared a first draft short story. A prequel to how Alex Rune assembled a group of technomages. In real life, around 2003 or so, a group of pe...

I find it takes more work and revision writing fiction than non-fiction. Along with fixing mistakes, details and how I present things change in ways I don’t...

Last week, I caught wind that an author I’d met long ago had their books stolen and put for sale on a pirate site. They had the situation well in hand, but t...

Writing is hard. I think I said that before. Pretty sure somebody else said it before me. I’ve reached a point in the story where I suspect there’s a prob...

How do you write a book? You could read a book on that. Or stick around while a guy who’s still writing his book tell you how it is. Don’t worry, everythin...

If a tire isn’t wearing even, you might need to balance it. The mechanic puts it on a spindle and adds lead weights to it. If something’s out of whack, you...

Once upon a time, I decided to write a novel. But before I did that, I held off from my story idea and wrote a short story to try it out. That worked okay,...

Nobody likes writing their own bio. We need it for the website and social media. When you get accepted, editors and agents will want one. Getting a decent...

My technomages need some rules, like all good societies of wizards. I have a challenge finding rules that would be applicable to people whose powers break t...

I used to think I was pretty good at writing. I could turn out a clever phrase and churn out pages of readable content.Then I started writing to get publish...

A year of research and building, and I’ve got the hang of Author Platforming. If you’re a writer, you need one. If you’re a small business owner, you need s...

“Be a quick change artist” -- Mark Anderson, mentor, IT professional My mutant power is problem solving and learning other people’s business. For me, gettin...

Watching over us through the long, dark night Mother, your voice wakes me from my long sleep Mother asks us to explore something new Why Mother, did you let ...

I’m decompressing from Avengers: Infinity War. Watched it tonight, and saw, things. Things I can’t explain, without spoiling it for others. But there’s one...

Remember those sitcoms that every season had an episode that ended up being a clip show? Time is tight, and I’m not happy with the article I was prepping fo...

What can you do when you are 400 words short of the word count requirement in a story? A writer friend asked that this week, so I took a stab at it and jott...

Alberto Arcia is a local writer in my part of Texas. He’s always given me straight, no nonsense feedback on my work. His new book is out, and like all writ...