What Will You Change in 2020?

What Will You Change in 2020?

Once again, this blog has been recorded. Scroll down to the bottom to listen or download the audio version. We’re continuing with our New Year’s questions this week with: What is one thing you are going to change in 2020? First, let me say that frequently I don’t know...
Blogging for Authors: Yes or No?

Blogging for Authors: Yes or No?

How many blogs do you read? What topics interest you? Do you only read blogs on writing craft? Book marketing? Self-publishing? Or do you enjoy reading about the writing process, or what an author is working on? Have you ever read an author’s blog that is meant for...
The End

The End

James Scott Bell, begins his book The Last Fifty Pages, with the quote by Mickey Spillane: “The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” I love that quote and it’s so very true. It’s also very true that endings are hard. Damned hard! We work to...
Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

Sometimes when you write you just get stuck. No matter how well you plot, no matter how well you think things out beforehand, sometimes things just come to a sputtering halt in your writing and you aren’t sure how to go on. When that happens, I always find that asking...
I approve this message

I approve this message

My apologies to you all who were looking for more help getting ready for NaNoWriMo. I just needed to write this today… Writers live with failure. We live with rejection. It’s just part of the business of being a creative. Is it any wonder, then, that we’re like...