Goals, Hopes, and Dreams

by | Dec 23, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing, Writing Craft

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Have you every kept any? If you answered yes, and yes, then kudos to you! Most people make then and then don’t keep them. Personally, I gave up making New Year’s resolutions years ago. If I want to lose weight, start going to the...

What’s your word going to be?

by | Dec 16, 2018 | Life, Writing

Continuing on with our theme of goals, which inadvertently happened but works for this time of year… A friend of mine introduced me to the concept of having a word for the year. The word is something you aspire to, something you hope to achieve, something to...

Your Goals

by | Dec 9, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

The very first thing I do when I start creating a new protagonist is to think about their goals. What do they want? What are they going to spend the duration of the book working toward? Of course, I then need to figure out why they want that goal and what’s stopping...

Writing Space and 10 Essential Tools

by | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

People have been talking quite a bit recently about an author’s “writing space”. This month’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group askes the question “What are five objects we’d find in your writing space?” and I’ve seen the question in other forms asked in other places,...

Don’t Give Up–Ever

by | Nov 18, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

This week we have a very special guest post from Sha Renee. Sha is one of those writers we all strive to be–warm-hearted and generous. She offered to host any author on her blog during the month of November in an effort to give back to the writing community. She...

A Marketing Co-op

by | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

Writers are amazing people. Not only are they highly intelligent (usually) and extremely creative people with amazing imaginations and an incredible understanding of people (how else could we create them from nothing and make others believe they’re real?), they are...