Are you a writer? First, are you SURE you want to be a writer? It’s a tough business. Even in these wide-open days of self-publishing you need to write a good story and hope it strikes a chord with (many) readers. If you want to go the traditional route, your fate is in other hands,…
Author: Robin D. Owens
Sooo . . . Rocky Mountain Gold Conference! Inner and Outer Validation. Friends.
I had a great conference, I hope you did, too! And I hope you got what you needed to progress with your work. As one of the Honored Guiding Members, I was especially touched by the people who wrote something in my book, (I only reminded one, or maybe twenty, to do so). I speak…
RMFW and me . . . and you.
RMFW’s Colorado Gold conference is in a few weeks, and, of course, I’m going. In fact, this year I am an “Honored Guiding Member” which means I’ve been in RMFW for a **mumbledy mumble** years. Okay, we’ll just leave it at decades. And, yes, RMFW has given me some awesome awards (I’ve been Writer of…
Having. Written. Writing is work.
Writing is work, and usually demands a good amount of self-discipline just to get your butt in the chair and put down words whether you feel like it or not. Yes, I go through funks. One of the reasons I give seminars on how to get through my panic and work through funks is because…
Rereading and Rereaders
First, a note, reading is my primary entertainment, I don’t have cable television (I have two network channels, that’s it) and I don’t download and watch films. I reread my library (not my own work) all the time. I always thought everyone did, but I was having a talk with a writer friend and found…