Category Archives: late night writing

Wrestling with motivation

A little success can be almost as dangerous as none. Why do I say that? Because I’ve now had a little success as a writer, and there are times when the last thing I want to do is write. Sure, once I fire up the word processor, that goes away. The trick is to be …

December 25, 2011 – 2:39 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

MOST LIKELY in the hands of editor, beta-readers

As I shared over on my author page, Craig-Hansen.com, on Friday, I finished revisions on MOST LIKELY around 3 PM that day and had a manuscript that was ready to face the scrutiny of my beta readers and my editor. It’s a nice step that shows that MOST LIKELY is nearly done and ready to …

April 10, 2011 – 2:41 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Morning or evening?

There are many aspects to creativity, and most of them don’t involve making the best choice of tanning bed lotions (though one or two of them may). But one of the most basic considerations to creativity is carving out your writing time from the best part of your day. Some of us are morning writers. …

February 28, 2011 – 2:50 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Blogging versus writing

Sometimes I wonder if blogging is as useful to me as it could be. Sure, there’s a certain bit of fun to be had in blogging. Whether I’m over on my politics blog griping about the government or over on my entertainment blog griping about Hollywood, the variety is fun. And the demands on my …

February 28, 2011 – 2:42 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Slowly getting over my cold

I still have a nagging cough and a bit of a wheeze in my chest, but slowly my cold is backing off. I set my writing goal for the week pretty low – about 2,500 words – but I had expected to be well past this thing by now and it’s still hanging on. It’s …

February 18, 2011 – 12:44 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Digital self-publishing: my fiction?

Of course, I have considered the digital self-publishing option for my fiction as well. The real question there is whether it would be a solid option, or whether I’d be robbing myself of a print-publishing contract. And to be honest, I think it could work even better for my fiction than for my religious writing. …

July 12, 2010 – 2:39 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Uniqueness beyond inspiration

It’s all fine and well and good to have a model that inspires, but to write a good and salable mystery series, if I choose to focus on a crime-solving Messianic rabbi as the focal character of my mystery novels, I’ll have to go beyond the admirable qualities I found in the works of Harry …

May 28, 2010 – 2:17 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

New desk, but need a new chair, too…

I recently bought and built a new desk for my computer. It was a reasonable price and I didn’t mind putting it together. After years of writing while laying on my belly with only a body pillow between me and the carpet, this is a definite improvement, even if it’s not as big as, say, …

April 17, 2010 – 11:45 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Treading water

Even though I’ve had mostly legitimate setbacks on my novel project, I’m really starting to feel like I’m treading water and, to mix metaphors, in need of some roadside assistance to get going again. I started this current novel over 18 months ago, when I first learned my mother was stage four in her cancer …

March 3, 2010 – 12:08 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

A PC that works, and time

I’d surrender all the club flyers you could shake a stick at for one thing: a PC that works smoothly and fast, and time enough to write. It’s been rare to have either, let alone both, lately. Yet that is certainly the way I’d most like to spend my time in the evening when my …

February 18, 2010 – 2:17 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Writing time’s taking a hit

With all my PC troubles, my writing time’s been suffering lately; I have enough time for blogging, which brings in much-needed funds, but no time for any novel writing. It’s like someone took thermogenic fat burners to my writing time and burned most of it away. Trouble is, I’m really full of ideas for my …

February 18, 2010 – 2:04 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Late-night novel-writing musings

While I am still working on my mystery novel, my sermon and commentary writing has taken up more time than I had anticipated this past month or two. Certainly, I don’t mind the sacrifice of novel-writing time; my ministry work is more important to me, after all. Yet I do quite look forward to digging …

December 14, 2009 – 3:32 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)