Questions Please!
My business coach has me writing down all the struggles I’ve faced as a writer. Believe me, there are plenty. But what I really need to know is what questions do other writers have? What struggles have they faced?
My business coach has me writing down all the struggles I’ve faced as a writer. Believe me, there are plenty. But what I really need to know is what questions do other writers have? What struggles have they faced?
Retirement: that time in life when you cease being employed for money and start employing your time on your personal interest. Isn’t this a fair assessment of what it means to be retired? Then why am I looking at getting a full-time job? A few months ago, my husband and I met with our financial …
November. Five years ago, I participated in National Novel Writing Month for the first time, and I wrote a young adult fantasy novel. It was beyond easy to churn out 50,000 words in less than thirty days. This convinced me I could be a professional author. I have the ability to write at a professional …
I’m a professional author. That means I write a story and send it off to my publisher. Right? Wrong. In most cases, most professional authors write a manuscript and return to it to rewrite, revise (not the same as rewriting), edit (not the same as revising) and polish (a cat of an entirely different color) …
A deluge of sales promotions, newsletters and reminders to check out the latest and greatest overflow your email inbox. I get it. The same thing happens to me. You’re probably sick of reading another post from me so soon after the last one. Now you’re in luck. Starting this month, I’ll be reducing the number …
My Muse is extroverted in every imagined scenario. My actual body and mind are introverted enough to happily stay home every weekend reading a book. While Musie celebrated the idea of the Deep Thinker’s Writing Retreat, my mind shriveled into the fetal position and begged to visit a library instead. Preferably the one on my …
It’s going on 6:00 pm. I’ve got a date in a room with a dozen other writers for something called Late Night Write, a specific brand of National Novel Writing Month torture. And I promised them chocolate. Fred Meyer is only a couple blocks from my house. On the way to the next town over …
November. National Novel Writing Month. It’s a brotherhood of insane writers, pounding out 1,700 words per day for thirty days. Since I’m rather unsure if I am meant to be a novelist, I may be a rebel again this year. In 2014 I wrote that path. It netted four short stories, one of which I …
Book clubs should be for discussing books and recommending books. Can you do such a thing online? That’s what I intended to find out when I joined Reader’s Coffeehouse. One of my goals for 2017 was to join a book club. I love to read, so why not turn it into an opportunity to socialize. …
If you’re like me (and a million other avid readers), you adore a well-written, engaging series. It means you’ll get to devour more books written about people who interest you written by an author you enjoy reading. For authors, writing a series holds the same sort of joy. And a few perils. The Seed of …