Writing In The Time Of Pandemic Distraction is the enemy of any writer.You sit down at the desk or open your laptop with the best intentions of working on your latest manuscript. Instead, you find yourself called to play online games, scroll through Facebook, Twitter feeds or Instagram. To obsessively check your latest book’s ranking…
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New Year Goals— How to Prevail Over Sludge Attacks
This is an article about reaching your New Year goals. We’re now 55 days into the new year, and I’m taking a closer look at my goals. I thought it would be fun if you suffered along with me by examining your own. Some of mine have been weenie goals. “I will take a closer…
A Dozen 2020 Trends for Authors
How has your new year gone so far? I’m in the throes of agony. My janetlane.net website went down for two scary days before my service reinstated it. To add insult to injury, for some mysterious reason my hosting techs have not been able to fix, my email service allows me to send out emails,…
3 Reasons your “Writer’s Block” may not be about the writing itself
You recognize the feeling, right? The moment when you know you should be writing, but you aren’t writing and it’s making you crazy and you need to get past it but you’re not sure how. The pen’s in your hand but the paper in front of you has nothing on it. You’re sitting in front…
Happiness and Writing
We’re all interested in the secret of happiness. I’ve read quite a few articles on the subject over the years. Most agree that wealth is no guarantee of satisfaction and contentment. (Although severe financial struggle certainly doesn’t increase your chances of being happy.) Career success is not necessarily a predictor of happiness either, particularly in…