Isn’t it amazing how everyone seems to know, even better than we do ourselves, what’s best for us as writers? We get advice from everybody on how we ought to be using our time and energy. From our agent (if we have one). From our publisher. From our readers. From other writers. From the pundits…
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Strike Me, Lightning! Dexter, Dreaming, and Jeff Lindsey
So who wrote Tarzan? You don’t know? I’ll give you a hint. He’s the same writer who wrote A Princess of Mars. You know, John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Tharks. Yeah, you know! Disney and the director of Wall-E did a movie called John Carter, which was awesome, no matter what people may say. People. Sheesh….
Don’t miss the chance to get registered for May’s Annual Education Event
Do you have the right stuff in the right place in your book? Do you know your genre or do you not know your genre? Those are the questions that will be answered next month at the Annual Education Event. If you haven’t seen the information about it in the newsletter and the e-mails going…
Stifling Self-Doubt by Aimie Runyan
Self-doubt is the hallmark of most writers, unless maybe you’re Stephen King. I have always thought it a good thing in measured doses. False confidence leads to bad books, and so long as I can quiet the nagging voice of in my ear, I welcome Doubt as the frumpy, sarcastic cousin of the more charming…
Oh, the weather outside is ….. perfect for my story!
“If you don’t like it, wait five minutes.” That’s the mantra Coloradoans mumble when the temperature plummets from 70 to 30 in one day. Important plans get interrupted, and you may sprain your back shoveling two feet of wet spring snow off your deck and have to cancel your tennis match. The unpredictability of weather…