Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ask a Smart Guy: The Novelology Marathon

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 23, 2010

Hello, hello. What’s this? Two blog posts in one week? Well, why the heck not? It’s time for our infrequent and irregular Ask A Smart Guy segment. Let’s start with this comment someone recently posted on the site. I have been an aspiring writer for five++ years, and still cannot find a method that works [...]

Posted in Blog | Tagged Aspiring Writer, Athlete, Blank Page, Damn Thing, Discover, Endurance, Heck, Inner Turmoil, Introductions, Lot One, Manuscript, Marathon, Novella, Novels, Segment, Short Story, Smart Guy, Story Idea, Torrent, Writing A Novel | 3 Comments

Just Another Random Blog Post

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 22, 2010

Haven’t posted anything in a long while. Been busy. Also, just seems like I’m repeating myself. In fact, saying it feels like I’m repeating myself feels like I’m just repeating myself. Still, I am alive, and I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m still drawing oxygen. And while I’m at it, I might [...]

Posted in Blog | Tagged Aspiring Writer, Blog, Circles, Finding A Way, Hardest Thing, Hydra, Jim Varney, Last Friday, Lightning, Minotaur, Monsters, Neato, Oxygen, Plot Structure, Random, Screenwriters Association, Seat Of My Pants, Thief, Torpedo, Wikipedia | 3 Comments

Martinez on Martinez

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 13, 2010

The A stands for Awesome. Let’s just be clear on that. Hi. Been a while. Still working on finishing my current manuscript, but I can’t stay away. It’s not fair to you, my adoring public. You guys are my bread and butter, so I’m setting aside the manuscript for a second and posting something because [...]

Posted in Blog | Tagged Books, Bread And Butter, Current, Curses, Dinobot, Humor, Manuscript, Martians, Misfortune, Mole People, Money, Moon, Novel, Novels, Orbit, Semi Colons, Tendency, Wit, Witch | 4 Comments

Still Alive

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: February 3, 2010

Haven’t posted anything in a while. Been busy as heck trying to finish this damn novel. Writing can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. Even when you know what you want to write, just the time to write it is a killer. When I’m ahead of schedule, a book juste seems to appear [...]