Writer’s Life
Summer Writing … or Not
We plan all those long, sunny, endless days for writing. We see that Writer’s Digest ad (its been running in their mag for years!) of the woman sitting on the shore in the sand, notebook in hand, gazing out to the…
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Find Your Writing Niche to Guarantee Success
Let’s say you want to write. You want to write fiction. Oh, heck, let’s make it a series of books. So what then? Just how specific are you when you define what you want to write … or what you…
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The Writer’s Ungoverned Brain
The writer’s brain is like none other (at least in my opinion). It sizzles with characters and plots and twists along the way. Random or delineated, these ideas form a huge and palpable stuff in our brains and all we…
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The Genre Dilemma
Hi Writers! I hate it when I’m told to do something “just like such-and-such” and then, after I do that, I’m told it isn’t “fresh.” Well, how CAN it be fresh and new sounding if I’m making it just like something else?!? And…
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Guest Blogger Interview – a Worthwhile Promotion?
Many of my writers who have their books already published are looking for ways to promote their books. Sometimes they find themselves invited to be interviewed in someone’s blog and they feel flattered (as rightly they should). This is called…
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Elevator Pitches – Summer Conference Mistakes!
It’s time for the infamous Summer Writing Conferences! Stellar speakers, anxious agents, popular publishers and the masses of winsome writers. (I’m feeling alliterative today!) The fact is that I’ve been to numerous conferences, back when I was actively writing versus…
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The Best Advice for Any Fiction Writer
My first piece of writing advice came from an unlikely (and a NOT recommended) source: my husband. Why I was inspired to suddenly write a story, I don’t know. It was one of those “do it now!” needs that bubble…
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Writers – Green Lights, Red Lights (and how to turn them green again!)
Congratulations to every writer who weathered the social, political and climatic storms of 2012 and kept writing in the face of it all. It is that ability (or is it need?) to write that helps us all to get through…
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