I can’t draw. Or paint, or sculpt, or anything else that involves the visual arts. I can just about lay out a page of text so it doesn’t look completely terrible, but that’s probably the extent of my artistic ability. So when, many many years ago, I had a short story published in Exuberance, a… Read More
writing
Imaginary worlds
Earlier this week, science fiction writer John Scalzi wrote about Richard Stern, who died recently. Scalzi attended a creative writing class taught by Stern, and one thing he recounts about the experience seemed very familiar. Scalzi says: My first problem was that on the first day of class, Stern said to us that he wouldn’t… Read More
Why Scrivener?
I mentioned in my first post that I was using Scrivener to write my novels. It really is an excellent piece of software, and I must give it at least some of the credit for allowing me to complete my first novel. I’m a technical writer, and I’ve been using Word for nearly 20 years…. Read More
And so it begins
My name is John K. Fulton, and I’ve been writing since I was a teenager. For the past twenty years I’ve been the clichéd “technical writer who would secretly like to be a proper writer” but it’s only in the past year that I’ve decided to take the next step and actually try to get… Read More