Posts under ‘In Order to Write’

J. Michael Straczynski wrote a book on writing screenplays titled, The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, wherein he outlines how to outline writing for movies, television, plays, and more. I have actually found this method of outlining to be interesting in that you deal with a lot of plot and a little dialogue and you essentially [...]

I am taking a brief brain breather to post that I have started and stopped several posts. They get about two paragraphs into a thought and then realize that it’s not what I am really thinking about and then delete the post I am trying to write and move on to something else. At present, [...]

For those that have never read my reviews of John Zakour’s books (Plutonium Blonde, Doomsday Brunette, Radioactive Redhead, Frost-Haired Vixen, and Blue-Haired Bombshell). Heck, I even interviewed the author. This is a writer I actually enjoy reading and even though I have (as yet) not gotten back to Frost-Haired Vixen (I promised to give it [...]

I have, effectively, been MIA for the past two days. Not really MIA as the people who need to know where I am and what I am doing have known both (e.g. Erin and codename: CAMPER). However, when it comes to the website, and for at least one class, I have (unfortunately) been MIA. In [...]

Once upon a time I really enjoyed listening to Country music. Of course, that was before I went to a giant country music festival and sat, for an entire day and well into the evening, surrounded by people I probably wouldn’t associate with if I had free time and the desire to associate with people [...]

According to this article Tony Hillerman died. Hillerman is the writer of a bunch of mystery books set on the Native American reservations. My parents really liked reading him, especially since they moved to southwestern Colorado near the Ute Reservation and working on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona with the LDS church. On the sad [...]

Well, I am working on a lack of sleep. I am also actually amazed that this lack of sleep is allowing me to plow through as much as I have been. Most of the lack comes as a response to Erin’s needs to sleep more since she does a lot of the heavy lifting when [...]

If you were intending to land at In Order to Write and found the URL reading http://www.johnhattaway.com/ then you are where you want and need to be. I have moved all of the IOTW posts over here (bringing my total number of posts well over 1000). This was rather easy… and took some back-end category [...]