Looking for Inspiration
Some writers wait for inspiration to hit before they write. As a professional author, I can’t afford to wait, so I go looking for it. I found it on a recent trip.
Some writers wait for inspiration to hit before they write. As a professional author, I can’t afford to wait, so I go looking for it. I found it on a recent trip.
Meet the author of a new book aimed at helping writers gain confidence and creativity. You can Write Without the Fight!
Enter the second week of the eighth month of the year two-thousand-and-twenty. About ten months ago, I realized I had slid into creative burnout and I needed creative rest and refueling. Thus, the word for the year was chosen. Back then, none of us understood how much unrest would grip our world. It started with …
The keyboard sat quietly waiting for the fingers of its familiar friend. Over the past five years together, they’d sent nearly 1.5 million words from the nebulous universe of a creative soul onto paper. Sure, some of those words never left the computer files. But many of them had soared into the world of publishing …
Passion is the stuff of romance and marriage, right? It’s also the heart of great creative endeavors. So what do you do once the passion jumps a train and head south? I know it sounds like this could be the title to a bad movie. Or maybe another Bridges of Madison County story line. But …
Back in January, I admitted this would be a year of “building” for my brand, but I had no idea how much being an indie author would tax my creative soul. The reality of “indie publishing” measures up differently than the perception. At least for me. Isn’t that true of many things? Christmas is the …
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Facebook algorithms favor video. Oh, and groups. So, to get the best organic exposure on facebook, post videos in your groups. Sure. Whatever you say. Who said it? People who know all about making your brand stand out. Professionals who are PAID to make videos that bring in customers. But I’m an author. I’m not …
I thought the Professional Author’s Brain (PAB) would be different. Back when I started down this road to become a published author, I accepted that disparate ideas and motivation would war against my love of story writing. I was an amateur after all, and that creative writing/professional writing degree didn’t really prepare me for reality. …
At the suggestion of an author I follow, I checked the audiobook of BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR written by Elizabeth Gilbert. After all, I needed something to listen to while I cleaned the house and logged miles on the pavement. In case you’re not familiar with authors, Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of …
Legislating away my right to create is criminal. Sometimes its the weather or circumstances that commit the crime which freezes imagination. Might as well hit it with liquid nitrogen. Creativity holds an artist hostage. It plagues the mind at inopportune moments (like when I should be sleeping). The very element of creating can wind up …