Happy Sunday Y’All! This is going to be a quick one today because my “To-Do” list is pretty damned long and I am bound and determined to not spend the *entire* day working. So here goes… Take chances. In your writing. Write what you’ve never written before. Take that one thing (or pick one, if …
Elevator Pitch. If you’re any kind of serious about getting traditionally published, or if you listen to writing podcasts, or if you hang out with writers or writing communities, you’ve heard about the “Elevator pitch”. It’s almost unavoidable. But, if you’ve somehow managed to avoid hearing about the elevator pitch* let me wrap a definition …
I have a confession to make… I did not write 5000 words today. I didn’t write 2500 words today. Didn’t even get close. I edited a chapter, it took me – probably – longer than it should have because I’ve got a cold-thing that has half of my head feeling like it’s been packed with …
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Maybe you’ve heard this before: 80 percent of success is showing up. I tried to track down who it was that originally said that and the closest I could get was a quote from Woody Allen, but he was talking about life. I agree with the quote, but what, exactly does “Showing up” mean? On the …
I’ve seen the question posed by the title of this blog post a number of times over the past few weeks. It’s a good question because, if you’re anything like me, current events and the latest outrages tend to hit you pretty hard, leaving you drained and tired and that’s not the best footing to …
Who’s job was it to keep an eye on the author this month? Oh, yeah…it was mine. So I’ve kinda fallen off the wagon when it comes to getting a blog post up each week. Some of it – ok, most of it – was simply a mental energy deficit. We’ve all got our own …
I was going to start this post off by saying that, for a month that started out so well, January really turned on me at the end. But I think that might be laying too much blame on January’s shoulders to be fair. And, honestly, January was pretty cool. I got to be a panelist …
Two weeks ago, I talked about some of my plans for 2017: To recap, I set down the challenge to write either one book this year or no less than 10 short stories and submit them. I decided on writing the book and have been working steadily on it since the turn of the year. …
Happy New Year!!! For those of you that don’t benefit from the video feed*, I’m doing a huge muppet arm-flail and my dogs are looking at me like I’ve lost it. I hope that this year brings peace to all of you. I also want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who bought …