By Robin D. Owens There you are, drudging through your current project, convinced it is cat crap and an idea wiggles in. A beautiful, sparkling, WONDERFUL idea. Something so alluring, that will be so much more fun to write than the current story (especially if the current story has been bought and you’ve taken money…
Tag: finishing manuscripts
Wrapping Up a Trilogy
By Jeffe Kennedy A couple of weeks ago I was privileged beyond belief to hear one of my longtime heroes speak – fantasy writer Stephen R. Donaldson. He read and discussed his lifetime of work at Bubonicon. I also got to be a guest author at the same event, making it all that much more…
How Exhaustion Helps Writing
By Trai Cartwright How does exhaustion help writing? It doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t. Writing through mental and physical exhaustion has always been a struggle of mine, and it seems in the past year or two, I’ve heard much the same from many of my writer friends. Whether it’s acute over-programming or serious health ailments,…
When You Shouldn’t Finish What You Started
By Katriena Knights One of the cardinal rules of being a writer is to finish what you start. After all, if you don’t finish those stories, you won’t have anything to submit or publish, right? Right. But there are times when it’s best not to finish or revisit an unfinished or unpolished piece.
Inspiration
By Jeanne Stein Recently I was asked to talk about what inspires me as a writer and a person. My first automatic response was everything. But then I realized I might be confusing inspiration with the process of creation—-taking an idea and developing it into a story. Two different things. The muse that sparks an…