After I published my first short story in 2009, and becoming addicted to receiving acceptance letters, I spent several hours scouring the internet for possible markets. Little did I know about Duotrope.com back then.

I ended up making three lists that day. One contained the names of smaller markets I wanted to submit to, and the second the name of that one market I had been published in, Be-A-Better-Writer.com.

The final list held the names of the larger markets I wanted to be pu...

After roughly twenty days of writing, I’ve finished the first, and extremely rough, draft of my very first novel.

It only stands on about 30 000 words (which is about half of what I’m aiming at), but I haven’t included any descriptions or thoughts in my first draft. For now I’ve basically just written down the actual story, getting the plot down on paper. There are also a few key scenes that I just wrote down in a sentence or two, knowing that I’d only end up rewriting them on...

It would be ideal if the world did not end in 2012. But, because that’s out of my hands (Or is it?), I’ll just set out a few goals that I can and hopefully will achieve.

Normally it’s not a good idea to make New Year’s resolutions public, but I’m going to stick to a bit of advice I grew up with: “Show your flaws. Let people notice them. Only then will you truly make an effort to correct them.” So by letting you all in on my goals for this year, I’ll hopefully be more mot...