One of the best books I’ve ever read on writing… wasn’t a book on writing.Sure, I’ve studied most of the required tomes, such as Save the Cat Writes a Novel, Story Genius, and Take Off Your Pants! I learned the requisite information to write a novel: the importance of plot points, character arcs, internal/ external…
So many writers end up staring at blank pages or finding themselves stuck, unable to get the ideas to flow from brain to paper. It gets diagnosed as Writer’s Block. The prescription is time away to regenerate the muse. Once back home, newly tanned from a beach, sleeves rolled up, some frustratingly find the…
Fear. What a powerful force. Fear Drives Us and Holds Us Back From Writing In life. In writing. I’ve seen so many posts from writers, worried about a litany of issues that cobble their ability to finish their WIP and take the next step. What kind of worries? These top the list: Fear of failure…
We all have a choice to listen to the negative self-talk in our minds or tackle life’s challenges and move beyond the negativity and attain our goals
So…you want to kill off a character and write a scene where he grabs his neck and dies instantly after a sip from drug-laced drink! Not so fast. If you write that scene, you risk losing credibility with your readers. Some drugs are rapidly lethal in small quantities, but none are instantaneous killers. Even the…
On my morning training ride today, I planned to cycle 24-25 miles. Easy flats, some rolling hills. Nothing too hard, something fun. I didn’t want to tire my legs out for a possible run tomorrow. So, once again I bowed out of climbing THE hill. Riders zoomed past, intent on climbing a hill that, until…
I just got back from cheering folks on at the ITU World Multisport Championships in Spain. I continue to be amazed at my misconceptions of the triathlete world. When I train, I struggle against injury, motivational challenges, and work-athlete-life balance. And I always feel alone, exposed in my false pretense of belonging to the world…
Write’s can experience burnout. This article offers tips for helping identify and overcome burnout.
As writers, we need connections on social media to find critique partners and places to share writing knowledge. But sometimes those connections are not helping advance creative needs. I think we’ve all been there- finding a closed FB group, whose focus is a genre or writing topic of interest. But the posts content is for…
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