How One Writer Survives A Modern World
For the second year in a row, I wound up with a serious cold in January that flattened me for 4-5 weeks. It wasn't that I just had a cold. It was I could barely lift my head off the pillow. As an aside, this is what I said about it in a previous …
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Most of my creative life I've been a project-oriented person. When my agent got a book, it was focus on the book - get it written and then move on to the next project (whatever it was) Get that project done - move on. Repeat for almost too many …
You should hear the conversation between my work mind and my creative writer's mind (yeah, a little crazy but it helps when you're a writer) as they negotiate what exactly is going to get done this spring. And then... And then they go …
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I have just finished renovating my office, and there are a few lessons I believe I should share with you. The first, is that I am a terrible judge of color in a room. This was pointed out quite firmly to me while a certain person I live with and …
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Things have been a little hectic this month. Mind you, I'm sure many of you are saying the same thing as we fight off the last gasps of winter and look forward to the emergence of spring. Books To Review I looked at the pile of books on one …
Being a writer was something I think I always wanted to do. But I've just done a business analysis and decided I needed to stop being a writer. Seriously? You Stopped Being A Writer? Yes. I stopped being a writer. What Are You Going To Do …
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I’ve long been of the belief that writer’s block doesn’t exist in the form that many writers describe. They tell of facing pages and not being able to write – of struggling mightily over words and phrases and still turning out dreck – of …
Yes. I have shut down my author mailing lists to the general public. Let's start at the beginning. Current best practice recommendations include running a mailing list for readers. And that's fine as far as it goes. But let's examine this in more …
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