So. Here we are, six months into the “New Year.” How are your writing resolutions going? Are you getting 2,000, or 10,000, or whatever daily word counts you aspired to complete? Me either. Have you finished that first novel and started in on your second? I’m right with you on missing that one too. In…
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Best Conference Advice: Leave Your Clothes On (Almost) All the Time
With less than three days until the Colorado Gold Conference presented by RMFW, I wanted to drag out and dust off the conference rules. Mind you, these are not ‘rules’ as in those that will land you in the conference clink, but ‘rules’ like those of writing itself–Good guidelines to follow, but every once in…
Secrets of Author Success as Told By Someone Successful (Which is Not Me or is that I?)
By J.A. (Julie) Kazimer As writers we hear tons of advice from editors, agents, other writers and fans (plus anyone who ever hears we are writers, randomly, even in the loo). All of this advice is wonderful. And horrible. Good and bad. It’s all about how we see it, and how we react to it….
How To Handle a Bad Critique – Aaron Michael Ritchey Style
BY Aaron Michael Ritchey So I’ve been in critique groups for nine years now. That’s a whole lot of words being read by other people. You want the math? Oh yes, I know you do. So ten pages a week, times fifty-two ‘cause there are fifty-two weeks in a year, so that’s 520 pages a…
Take A Little Trip
By Mark Stevens Two random tidbits last week got me fired up. The first was from a story in The New Yorker about new research into the positive effects of psychedelic drugs—psilocybin in particular. The second was a line uttered by Alexandra Fuller during a podcast of her Tattered Cover presentation for her new memoir,…