1. Welcome to the RMFW Spotlight series, Julie. Tell us what you do for RMFW and why you are involved. I don’t do nearly as much as others do, nor do I feel like I do enough, so thank you, Pat, for asking me to answer these very intrusive questions about myself. I do a…
Tag: the writing life
The Truest Voice of All … by William Kent Krueger
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…
5 Ideas to Boost Your Writing Confidence
The blank page is to many authors what a large audience is to a shy and introverted soul asked to give a speech. Terrifying. And it doesn’t help when writing friends are completing that next chapter, submitting another short story to an anthology, or simply garnering another 50 readers to their blog. Before succumbing to…
Do I have to be sad? … by Nicole Disney
I used to think that the best writing sprouted from suffering. Whether being depressed makes you a good writer or being a writer eventually makes you depressed, I did not know, but I knew there seemed to be a link. We’ve all been told that if we don’t have to be writers, don’t, right? The…
Random Thoughts
A Little Bit Every Day I started writing the fifth book in the Allison Coil Mystery Series on Jan. 1, 2014. (Yeah, New Year’s Day. Just Because.) I finished the draft on Monday, March 28. I wrote 500 words a day. That’s 453 days, which would have been 165,433 words if I made forward progress…