Category Archives: Writing Musings

Curious? Fictions!

Posted on 2017-09-22 by Matthew Shean

Greetings everyone in Sheanland! I know it must come as a surprise to see me popping up in whatever feeds you read this blog in, having not seen me for (searches backwards through a calendar) …a day shy of five … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Leave a comment

Super Action Excite Team Go!

Posted on 2017-04-11 by Matthew Shean

Joyous day to you all out there in Shean-land!!! If you recall, a few weeks ago I told you all about the sale of my story, Super Action Excite Team Go!, to the magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show. Well, today is … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Rewriting

Posted on 2016-11-20 by Matthew Shean

Writing is hard. It’s not tarring-a-roof-in-a-Georgia-summer hard, not digging-ditches-and-shifting-concrete hard, but doing it right isn’t exactly easy, either.  But it’s also fun and incredibly rewarding.  There is no better feeling than Having Written.  That’s right, I said no better feeling. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

My Very First Review!

Posted on 2016-11-11 by Matthew Shean

Greetings! It’s been quiet here at Here I Go since I had the honor to attend Odyssey – just one post since to announce the publication of my first story. Today we have another first!  My first review! Black Gate … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Public Reading

Posted on 2016-06-21 by Matthew Shean

I’m now a third of the way through Odyssey, and I’ve learned more about the bones of writing in the last two weeks than in the forty years prior.  It’s amazing.  But I’m not here now to talk about that. Instead, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Be A Better Writer (Workshops, Pt. 2)

Posted on 2016-06-05 by Matthew Shean

I’m sitting in a dorm room in New Hampshire as I write this. I’ve been out of college for nearly twenty years, but here I am, back in a dorm. Why? I wrote last week about some of the many … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Be A Better Writer (pt. 1 – Workshops)

Posted on 2016-05-26 by Matthew Shean

While I’ve been trying to write full time for only about a year and a half now, it is something I’ve been dreaming about and working toward for most of my adult life. I’ve read how-to books and memoirs, followed … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Who is Matthew Shean?

Posted on 2016-05-21 by Matthew Shean

Since starting on this path to being an author, I’ve had to do a lot of soul searching and self examination. In grad school, I spent a long time wondering whether I was cut out to be a scientist, how … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged | Leave a comment

The Children’s Author with 1,000 Faces

Posted on 2016-01-26 by Matthew Shean

One of the things I enjoy is trying to look at a collection of things and observing the patterns there, seeing the pattern in the noise.  It comes, I think, from decades of training as a scientist.  The thing is, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Musings, Writing Musings | Tagged | Leave a comment

Hey, I wrote a book, will you read it?

Posted on 2015-11-12 by Matthew Shean

I’ve been reading and listening to author interviews for years, hoping to better understand what it’s like to be an author.  And one of the things they always mention with dread is when some random stranger asks them to read something they … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing Musings | Tagged , , | 1 Comment