by Ben Wolf | Sep 7, 2020 | Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Strategery, Vampires, Writing
“Have you ever heard of Ravzar, the God of Beasts?” Garrick scoffed, and he couldn’t help but grin. “Yes.” “Legend has it he created a special breed of feline—that’s another name for ‘cat’—” “I know what it means.” “Anyway, he created a special breed of cat that...
by Ben Wolf | Jul 1, 2020 | Storytelling, Strategery, Writing
He didn’t want to blow his chance… …so my friend Connor asked me for help. He’d managed to snag some extra time over a holiday weekend for a writing marathon. He’s newer to the game, and since I’ve published 10-ish books as of this...
by Ben Wolf | Jun 14, 2018 | Editing, Money, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Strategery, Writing
Late last night I started a conversation with a friend of mine who also writes speculative fiction–specifically, he writes Christian spec fic. I used to classify myself and my writing using similar vernacular, but I have since changed my approach. My friend...
by Ben Wolf | Nov 17, 2015 | Writing
NaNoWriMo (Nano) is halfway done. I’m ahead of the stated Nano goal at the time of writing this, but I’m chasing my personal word count goal of 2,000 words per day. Right now I’m behind and need to write about 3,000 words today to catch up. If you...
by Ben Wolf | Jan 1, 2015 | Editing, Money, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Strategery, Vampires
A few weeks ago Splickety published a blog post with my suggestions for 6 Things to Keep in Mind when Setting Goals. With that in mind, how could I not write a post sharing the ins and outs of my goals with all three of my readers? If you want to know where I’m...