Write on the days when the words flow as easily as water. Write on the days when it feels like every word has to be dredged up from your toenails. Write on the days when you feel like the painted ship upon a painted sea, when words are sludge and hope is gone and you know for certain that nobody in their right mind will ever read this tripe you’re smearing on the page.
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5 Tips for Using Your Business Card
This past weekend some writing friends and I were discussing why we need business cards and how to use them. The business card, after all, seems like an outdated concept in our world of electronic everything. As a marketing person from way back, I’m not ready to chalk off this ubiquitous form of personal branding…
Supporting One Another
Writing can be a lonely endeavor. By nature, it is a solo pursuit. We write alone, whether in a private office, living room, library, or coffee shop. As well, we often “feel” alone in our profession because so many of us are introverts. Despite our families, friends, and critique partners, we nurture self-doubt. We fear…
Still Learning
I’m on a borrowed computer at the moment because yesterday I tried to update my system software and it failed. Now the darn thing won’t even boot. Computers are such a pain. So it means a trip to the repair shop later this morning. This post is a continuation of my last post about the…
Immortality – would you really want it?
I first published this post two years ago on another blog, but recently, I got into a discussion about immortality and it made me revisit the subject. I write about immortal characters –vampires and more recently, a siren. If you write about vampires, immortality is a subject you give a lot of thought. It goes…