Category: How To and Tips
Six Things That Allow Me To Stay in My Jammies Writing Books All Day (In NO Particular Order)
Writing is a tough way to make a living. Not like coal miner tough or air traffic controller stressful. The job itself is wonderful. The commute to my office in the basement is pretty sweet, and it’s not exactly a hardship to spend my days with characters that I love. But as far as making […]
Do Sales Equal Success?
What does success look like? Sometimes, I think as authors, one of the main ways we calculate our success is based on the sales of our books. It’s instant validation. Who doesn’t want that? But is that the best way to define what success is as an author? I don’t think so. See the problem […]
Becoming Good Friends with Fear
Fear and I have been acquaintances for some time, but I only recently decided to become good friends with fear. In 2014 I was laid off from my day job. After much reflection, I decided to pursue a path that was both new and frightening to me. I gave away most of my material goods […]
Faith in fiction
Every year around Thanksgiving, well-meaning articles suddenly appear warning folks not to discuss politics or religion at the table if they want to keep the holiday meal friendly. Is the same true when writing fiction? If we want our stories to have wide appeal, perhaps we’re better off staying away from these contentious subjects as […]
When You Don’t Have Time To Write
“I don’t have time to write” is my least favorite mantra, one that I’ve so often heard from lapsed and would-be writers. I used to chant it a lot to myself, and the more I repeated it the more I believed it. It became an immutable fact of life – until an unlikely situation shifted […]
Writing For Transformation And Bliss
In late 2017, my book, Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life was published, and the response to it has been excellent. As a result, I decided to create a companion journal and this was just released on January 1st, 2019. Developed for the seasoned storyteller as well […]
Writing the Hard Stuff: Seven Things You Need to Know
Tell me if you can relate to this: You’re deep into your writing and everyone else in the house is asleep, even the dog. You’re crying as you type, wiping at your face in order to see the computer screen, unwilling to leave your keyboard to get a tissue. In fact, you’re so completely in […]
A Cheat Sheet To Writing A Novel In Suburbia
“How did you do it?” They look at me. Middle-aged, over-weight with a baby on my hip, twins holding onto my leg, bags under my eyes, grey strands of hair making their appearance, an office badge dangling from my neck, still clad in my business attire while attending a Cub Scouts function. “Really, how did […]
Learning How And When To Take Advice
I wrote my debut novel in six weeks. Okay, that’s not quite true. I wrote what I thought was my debut novel in six weeks, and then I revised, edited, and workshopped it for over three years before it was finally published this past November. As easily as the initial writing flowed, the refining and […]
New Year’s Writing Resolutions: Part Two
We asked some of our favorite authors to share their New Year’s Writing Resolutions with us! This is Part Two! Find Part One HERE Kaira Rouda, USA Today Bestselling Author I’m not good at New Year’s Resolutions per se, but since I am in the midst of my next work in progress, so for me, […]
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