The Next Book
The next book will likely be non-fiction. I’m outlining it now. It’s interesting to me, but I have this question about whether it would be interesting to a couple of million people. It should be, but...
View ArticleAren’t You Tired of F_cking Around?
This is a screenshot of my desktop background. I have, obviously, stopped fucking around. I am definitely tired, by now, of fucking around. I’ve chased small projects my entire life. Why that is, I’ve...
View ArticleNew Computer and New Book
The Macbook Air 11 inch died when I overloaded it with files to the point where I cannot even boot it up. I can’t do anything with it, it is essentially a $1,200 light aluminum brick. I could have...
View Article2:46 a.m.
I’ve never written a blog post in the wee hours. I’m never awake. Tonight I feigned sleeping at 7:30 p.m. so my four-year-old would sleep faster. She did. Then I did too. I awoke at 11:30. Been up...
View ArticleStephen King’s Tips on Writing – Worth a Read!
Just a quick link to share with other writers. I thought I’d read everything coming out of Stephen King’s lips. Then my sister threw me a link to this on Facebook. Wow. I’ve read these tips three times...
View ArticleMassive Article – How to Write a Fiction Novel – 8,000+ Words
I’ve been working on a beast of an article. I hadn’t planned to write it, but I saw so many other authors doing it, and I thought since I’ve written so many books and had some success at sales at...
View ArticleThe Essentials of Writing a Fiction Novel – 9,000 Words!
Ok, I finished what is definitely one of my longest blog posts ever here at MikeFook.com, the grand tally went way over what I originally intended, but then I decided to write the best article I could...
View Article3 Week Countdown to Accomplish Something Great in 2014
Probably at the beginning of 2014 you said optimistic things like you were going to accomplish something in 2014. Probaby you did. I did. I said I was going to write a Big Book. I was thinking about...
View ArticleHow to Finish Your Book – Crushing Writer’s Block
Some say writer’s block doesn’t exist. That’s stupid. It might not exist in the way you’re thinking about it, but it exists for many people depending how they choose to define it. It’s funny how much...
View ArticleWrite Something Big or Starve
This is the first post I’m going to do using the transcribe feature on my MacBook Air 11-inch. I am talking and the computer is changing my voice to text. When this becomes a viable option for writing...
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