I was talking with a writer the other day. Those writers. You know the type. Shifty-eyed. Distracted. Stinking of gin and desperation. A nervous laugh and a hair-trigger sense of despair. Yes. A writer. She was working on her first novel, and times were bad. Why were times bad? Because she was about halfway through…
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By Robin D. Owens “My brain has decided that writing isn’t a temporary job anymore,” said Laila, a writer I’ve been sprinting alongside in the mornings lately. “I’m rearranging my office this morning during our writing sprints. When I started working my day job from home and writing too, I assumed it was temporary. I…
Free Your Writing Soul, and Write Better as a Result
By Tina Ann Forkner My debut novel released in 2008 from a legacy publisher. Sounds like a dream come true, doesn’t it? And it was, for a while. When my next novel came out in 2009, it looked to some people like I was on the publishing journey every aspiring writer wanted. When 2010 came…
Pen and Paper? Are You Kidding Me????
By Mark Stevens I recently sparked a flutter on Twitter. I mentioned that I write by hand. Yes, full novels—start to finish. By hand. I mentioned this on Twitter and I could hear virtual jaws dropping from coast to coast. Okay, in reality, I had five or six comments along these lines: “Are you KIDDING…
The Easy Button
By Terri Benson My day job includes coaching start-up businesses at a Business Incubator, and as a writer, I counsel people who want to write. Recently one of my clients opened the meeting with “I’ve started on a book. What I need is advice on how to find an editor who will give me a…