Joseph Hare

Hello, everyone! Are you looking for a fun, Christmas-related writing contest to enter? Well, you’re in luck! Fellow author Jonathan J. Hare is hosting one on his blog. Below is the link, where you’ll find his website and all of his rules for the contest. That’s all for today. Have fun! -Joseph

I’m just going to say it: I’m an outliner. No matter how many times I’ve tried to avoid the long, monotonous process of organizing an entire story before writing it, I’ve come to the same conclusion: I can’t write a story without first knowing everything that happens, moment-by-moment. I don’t know about you, but a…

Greetings, friends, and greetings to those who aren’t my friends, and just happen to be on my blog. Either way, I have a request. I have a bud, T. N. Hare, who just created a blog of his own and needs some traffic. I highly recommend subscribing here: T. N. Hare’s Blog T. N. Hare…

What is inspiration? Well, it’s certainly not a concrete thing, and trying to pin it down would be like trapping a lightning bolt in a glass jar. But I know from my personal experience that inspiration comes in many shapes and sizes…and circumstances. Take a mountain range, for example, the towering peaks of Clark, Wyoming,…

Here’s a small story I wrote for a prompt that Christopher Paolini posted on facebook the other day. My brother and I both shared stories, and it was really fun to write! His prompt was this: “The icy wind battered her exposed face, but she couldn’t look away. Something, or someone, was out there.” ____________________________________________________________________________…

I’ve recently started thinking of a new way to write my books – not thinking about what type of stories will hit shelves best, but what type of story I would love to read. I tested this method a few times over with my buddies, and it seems to work pretty effectively. So, my advice…

I have written probably three hundred pieces, including prologues, chapters, and short stories, and then, as soon as I felt the phantom resistance of inadequacy, I turned around and threw them out. To this day, I still look back and wish I’d finished them to see how I’d resolve a novel in my more youthful…

Starting out on a journey of writing certainly isn’t easy. Frankly, it’s a lot of hard work that can be overwhelming. I know from my own experience that I was constantly weighed down by the success of more popular authors, feeling that my writing wasn’t good enough, stressing over whether or not people would want…