So will you. Your setbacks might happen before you have any successes. It’s likely they will, in fact. What separates the best from everyone else is THE BEST KEEP GOING. Learn from the mistakes and move on. Your future best stuff is better than your current best stuff. If you gave something your all and […]
Here on the blog we like to dive deep and reveal the inner working of the writerly mind by asking the thought provoking questions we all need to know… We also interview friends just to see what’s up. Which is this? Beats me. Read on and decide for yourself as I sit down with Anne […]
We work hard at this writing stuff. We deserve a pat on the back once in while. And who else is gonna understand anyway? Except other writer types? The biggest things writers lack is confidence, and that starts by acknowledging that what we did is worth some praise. Big or small, let’s talk about them […]
This blog has long been a friendly place to come and learn, and what better way to learn than to ask? You have questions. Writer stuff, marketing, motivation, you name it. ASK ME Your questions. Your challenges. Your issues. If I don’t know, we’ll put it out to my vast network of author friends and […]
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It NEVER seems like it at the time, and it the correlation probably won’t be obvious, but in hindsight I can almost always find a place where that connection got made. Thoughts?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You won’t find it. You have to make it. Schedule it. We get done what we plan and schedule, not what we hope will happen. Consider writing the way you consider your job, and view your writing time as gold. Protect it. Guard it. Value it. But when […]
Lucy Brazier stops by to vent shed light on why writing a blurb for your book is such a hard task. Here’s Lucy. I’m not going to tell you that writing a book is easy; no one’s going to tell you that. Writing a book is time consuming, mentally and emotionally draining and plays havoc […]
We work hard at this writing stuff. We deserve a pat on the back once in while. And who else is gonna understand anyway? Except other writer types? The biggest things writers lack is confidence, and that starts by acknowledging that what we did is worth some praise. Big or small, let’s talk about them […]
I was looking at some old blog post for some reason, I really don’t remember why, and I saw that we used to have flash fiction challenges on Friday. More than one of my co-authors in our scary anthology mentioned they started following the blog because of the flash fiction challenges. Well, it’s something to […]
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