JWTroemner.com

Welcome to the official website of JW Troemner.

Author of The Dealmaker’s Gambit, the Urban Dragon Series, and Tatter and Shine

Category: Just Me

  • Keeping on track

    If there’s one thing that far too many of us have in common these days, it’s the simple words: “I am busy”. At the moment I’m going to school to pursue a Masters of Library Science, I’m running a freelance editing service, I’m trying to fix up my own manuscript,…

  • Feeling the strain

    “It does not do to dwell in dreams and forget to live.” –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone It’s been a rough summer for me. I recently started grad school, and between that, blogging, and the annual Spec Fic Marathon, I’ve ended up getting cloistered inside my office.…

  • Stealing from another house

    It’s no secret that I’ve got a bit of a sore spot regarding certain elements in fiction: specifically, I’m frustrated by a glut of fiction featuring Tolkien’s Elves/Dwarves/Men, the standard Vampires/Werewolves civil war, the obsession with Norse and Greek mythology. It’s not that these elements are bad– not by a…

  • Like a Virgin Blog Hop

    I’ll be entering the Like A Virgin Contest this July. One of the events is the official “Getting to Know You” blog hop, where we’re hoping to meet some other contestants, potential beta readers and critique partners. If you’re interested in becoming writing buds, let me know in the comments!…

  • Search Term Bingo!

    If you’re not familiar, popular author and awesome blogger Chuck Wendig does a little ditty known as Search Term Bingo. The deal is thus: WordPress includes a feature where it tells us what search terms led people to our site. Some of them make perfect sense. Others, however, can get…

  • A can of tomato seeds

    The other day I was writing up a blogpost and at a loss for words. In comes my husband, and I immediately proceeded to pick his brain: Me: “Boxy, what’s a good phrase for when you go out into the world, and it’s not what you expected– not entirely in…

  • 31 Day Blogging Challenge: Fueling the Muse

    Yesterday Tilla Brook said “I’m wondering what kind of snacks might help me to keep going! I’m more of an olives and crisps girl myself.” It’s no secret: I love food. I love making it, I love eating it, I love sharing it with friends and family. I’m a firm believer…

  • The road goes ever on and on…

    I have yet to meet anyone who’s hiked the Appalachian Trail by accident– you swear, you just stepped outside to get the mail, but 2,000 miles later you looked up and realized you were in Maine. That kind of hike takes preparation. You wear your most comfortable hiking boots, you…

  • Beating depression over the head with a monkey wrench

    If you haven’t read it yet, I implore you to head to Hyperbole and a Half for her take on the subject of depression. I dealt with that same brand of depression a while back. Though therapy and pills didn’t work, I finally found my corn (and I swear to…

  • Adventures with Scrivener

    Until now, I’ve only really used a few features of Scrivener: the goal and wordcount feature, the folders, the ‘split at section’ command, and occasionally the research file. This time I’m trying something different. I wrote the whole of this draft in Microsoft Word. Because I wasn’t using any features aside from…