That was an interesting week in terms of writing. This past Friday, I decided that I was going to go for the gold. I was going to go for a 10,000 word day. I honestly don’t know if I ever did that before. I think I’ve come close but never…
This has been an interesting week. When I set out working on my newest project (still entitled #GottaBeBae), I set a rather lofty goal for myself. This year, I am once again going to be speaking at the One Year Adventure Novel workshop in mid-June. I always have a blast…
Boy, once again, it’s been a while. This hasn’t been an easy time for me when it comes to my writing. For some reason, I’ve been in a bit of a funk for the past few months. I had every intention of writing and working on different projects, but every…
Because it’s Wednesday somewhere still, right? So a few days ago, I posted this picture on Instagram: Doing something scary… I’ll blog about it on Wednesday. #amwriting A post shared by John Otte (@otte.jw) on Dec 4, 2017 at 1:48pm PST And I did promise that I would blog…
It would appear that I fell into some sort of space/time rupture there and now I’m just emerging. Well, that’s not the case. I apparently wound up taking a little bit of a hiatus from the blogging world again. Sorry. It happens sometimes. So why did I go dark this…
It’s been a while. I can’t remember the last time I wrote one of my wordcount updates. It’s not that I haven’t been writing. I have. But each time I thought about doing one, I never really got around to it. So what’s been going on? Well, let’s see here……
Well, May the Fourth has come around once again. And this year, I got the jump on my Star Wars rumination by posting something about Rey’s parents. I figured that would do for this year (a couple hundred of you have stopped by to see what was on my mind)…
So for the past several months, I’ve been sharing the story of how I went from a wannabe author to a published author. I’ve talked about my earliest, thankfully now lost projects and where my published books have come from. We’re almost to the end of our journey (at least…
So in some ways, I’ve been cheating. Well, not really. I’ve actually faced a bit of dilemma when it comes to sharing these stories about how I went from unpublished wannabe to published impostor author. The dilemma is this: the order my books were published is not the order in…
This may come as a surprise, but when I first conceived of the book that became Failstate, I didn’t see it as a series of any sort. Failstate was going to be a standalone book, a single outing in that universe. When I pitched it to people at the ACFW…