by Daniel Howard | Aug 2, 2017 | How to FINISH Your First Novel, Pretentious Sh*t
Full disclosure: I’ve totally sold out to the man. Please assume that any product links here are affiliate links (i.e. I get a commission for referring people). While this will not affect the price in any way for you, if me making a few bucks offends you then I...
by Daniel Howard | Jul 26, 2017 | Pretentious Sh*t
So in my list of Pretentious Sh*t That Works, there is little that is as cliche – or as essential – as my favorite socially acceptable chemical dependency: coffee. There’s a lot to love about this magical, bitter beverage. It’s cheap, abundant,...
by Daniel Howard | Jul 18, 2017 | How to FINISH Your First Novel, Opinion, Pretentious Sh*t, Words Matter
There are a lot of words that offend, anger, or just irk me, but each and every one has a place in an author’s work. Their appropriateness may be up for debate, but that’s a contextual argument. It’s very possible that the words are there to offend,...
by Daniel Howard | Apr 17, 2017 | Pretentious Sh*t
Is there anything more cliche than a traveling writer? (There might be, but I may just explode if I try to write it down.) Yet, long after it has ceased to be original, the trope of the traveling writer remains. Why? Well, the trope likely began when writing was a...
by Daniel Howard | Dec 20, 2016 | Pretentious Sh*t
There is no way I would have finished my first novella without my dog. Sure, that looks a bit ridiculous, even to me as I write it, but that doesn’t make the fact any less true that there is no way I could have developed as a writer the way I have without the furry...
by Daniel Howard | Dec 29, 2015 | Pretentious Sh*t
We’ve all seen them at the local Starbucks or equivalent: some jackass with a laptop, sipping on a latte, probably working on a screenplay. Or the Great American Novel, even if they’re neither in America nor American in the first place. They have that far-away look in...
I'm a writer, editor, nerd, and foul-mouthed cheerleader of creative people everywhere. When not trying to force words to do my bidding, I'm a husband and father. 
