The number one reason you’ll never be an author is… YOU It’s not time or writing ability or lack of money or any other reason you can throw into the fire. It’s you. You’re the one who defeats yourself with your doubts and insecurities. It’s because you think, “This is never going to work” and […]
In a perfect world, you sit down to write at the time you set aside for it and knock out your daily word count without any trouble. But we don’t live a perfect world. Give yourself permission to struggle with writing It’s not a “failure” to struggle. (We don’t use the f-word here anyway.) Struggle […]
I crashed and burned in April. Trying to juggle writing a story (that I didn’t know where to take) and editing my book for May publication became too much. I gave up writing, dove into editing, and didn’t resurface until the beginning of May. By then, I’d had a pretty important writing revelation. The reason […]
In April, 21 intrepid souls and I embarked on the Camp NaNoWriMo adventure. It wasn’t my first NaNoWriMo—or even my first Camp NaNo—but it was the first time I banded together with a group of writers to write. And through them, I learned a few key lessons. 1. Motivation is overrated Okay, sure. We all […]
The biggest mistake writers make is wanting to write something people like Not because it’s impossible or that you’re not allowed to shine like the bright star you are—because your desire to write something “amazingly awesome that everyone’s going to love” leads to overwriting. When you try to sound intelligent, you bloat your writing with […]