Last week on The Debutante Ball, we talked about how to get the writing done when you don’t have time, when you’re in a rut, when the whole thing feels like shite. Honestly, sometimes it’s all I can do to fake it. It’s like that old saying, Fake it until you make it. Sometimes I… Read More On Faking It and Other Writer’s Mind Games
I took a two-week break from this blog. This was inadvertent. I lost track of myself. I’m deep in revision mode, and was preoccupied with Thanksgiving, work deadlines, and my wee doggy’s cancer diagnosis. Life. Last week on The Debutante Ball we talked about Thanksgiving and other disasters. I got to thinking about Black Friday —… Read More Coping with So-Called Disasters, Or, Getting a Grip
Last week on The Debutante Ball, we wrote about writers who have inspired us with their sage advice on the writing life and on craft. I was energized all week long reading our posts, and especially as I thought about one of my literary heroes, Elizabeth George. I consider Elizabeth George one of my early-on… Read More INSPIRATION | New York Times Bestseller Elizabeth George
I wouldn’t say I’m a group-oriented person. In fact, I shy away from anything that seems cliquey and insular. That said, I’m a huge fan of local writing communities. You never know what may happen when you get to know your fellow writers. For example, Anthony-award winning author Johnny Shaw sent me a note out… Read More Serendipity Will Meet You Along The Way
Lately I’ve experienced a few quiet moments of happiness and relief. I’ve still got my writing mojo. It’s in there somewhere, peeking out at me more and more. You may be thinking: But you have a novel coming out in March, how can your writing mojo be an issue? It goes like this: I wrote… Read More How To Get Your Writing Mojo Back
Today’s Friday, and I’m over on The Debutante Ball, a group ball for debut authors. Poets&Writers saw my post and liked it enough to list it on its Daily News right here: http://fb.me/2qR5dJfr8. Isn’t that cool? I thought it was. Any little thing to shore up my fragile writer’s ego, right? (I’m only partially kidding.)… Read More Pesistence and the Swamp Thing, My Journey to Publication
It’s not that I haven’t written since the economy tanked and my financial situation turned precarious and the contract work I found took over my life in an incredibly stressful way…It’s that I haven’t truly been writing either. Know what I mean? There’s a self-discipline to sitting down to the writing. There’s also a self-discipline to… Read More Reapplying the Bum Glue
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