What fuel are you running on? Many writers these days are frantically running from place to place, working too many hours, volunteering for too many projects, working nights and weekends hoping for approval. On top of that, in order to write, they are fueled by sugar, caffeine, cigarettes and adrenaline to keep going. Long-Term Damage […]
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Combine Babies and Bylines
I started writing when I had an infant, a two-year-old, and a preschooler. I wrote throughout their school years, their teen years, their college/adult years, and now full circle when I am babysitting grandkids. The (survival) skills you need to both write and parent change with each stage of your children’s lives. (Sometimes your […]
Key #1: Have a Reason to Write
[First read Part 1 of the series called “Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun.”] The first key that Susan K. Perry mentions in Writing in Flow is this: have a reason to write. I’m going to break this into two parts. First: The Reason to Write in Flow For me, the reason to write […]
Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun
One of my writing goals for 2015 is learning how to recapture the “fun” of writing. I love having a writing career and being published, but sometimes I long for the days when it was more enjoyable to write. I remember the days of getting into my fiction simply because I loved the character and I […]
Round 'Em Up!
I haven’t done a round-up of “best writing articles on the web” in a long time. So, with that in mind, here’s what I’ve been reading lately. I think you’ll find these four articles helpful too. In The Seven Stages of Creativity: A New Perspective on Writing a Book, I discovered that I didn’t actually understand […]
Cures for Procrastinators in One Minute Flat
Why is getting started often the hardest problem that writers face? Today, I piddled around with journaling, reading blogs, watering flowers, some marketing…all the while “getting ready” to write. But by noon, I hadn’t written Word One. There was no real reason for me to be unfocused. I felt fine, ate a healthy breakfast, had […]
Five Stages of Procrastination
How is procrastination like a bridge you set on fire yourself? According to Neil Fiore in The Now Habit, it’s similar to a situation where we scare ourselves into being frozen. Fiore says to imagine a very long flat board on the ground in front of you, and then imagine walking on it to the […]