YESTERDAY, I PULLED UP THE WRITING SCHEDULE I MADE FOR MYSELF IN JANUARY. According to that schedule, I should have ~10,000 words written by now. I don’t. So. Do I beat myself up and feel guilty for not having met my writing goal? I could. And I did, for about 2...
WE DON’T WRITE FROM NOTHING. You can’t move your readers unless you are moved. So, keep your creative juices stirred. One way is to throw a dinner party and invite a wide variety of people. Everyone throws a question or two in a hat, then you use those to...
WRITING IS A SOLITARY OCCUPATION, so why join a writers’ group? I have always made excuses for not joining one, the primary one being that I have no free time. The other, I admit, was that I just thought it would slow me down. So when a local library invited me...
How do you find time to write and hold down a full-time job? Simple question. Not so simple answer. I’ve posted about time management, but in a way, that’s the easy part. Penciling in those neat little boxes of your calendar, or mapping out your weekly...
What? You want me to do what? I admit this was my first reaction when my publicist asked me to do some radio talk show interviews. I don’t mind hard work. I don’t mind juggling my day job, family, friends, contacting book bloggers, and writing my own blog posts, while...
A self-admitted book addict, Valerie was the kid with the flashlight under her pillow. A life of travel with exposure to many different cultures led to a pervasive interest in people, with degrees & teaching credentials in Cultural Anthropology & English.
A self-admitted book addict, Valerie was the kid with the flashlight under her pillow. A life of travel with exposure to many different cultures led to a pervasive interest in people, with degrees & teaching credentials in Cultural Anthropology & English.