A friend writes from flood-weary Nashville that she is sometimes writing only one word a day as clean up progresses. Imperfect action. I set writing one paragraph a day on the next novel as my goal. Imperfect action. You sit down to work on your memoir and the words tumble out onto the page in […]
I like every place I find myself in. Sometimes I like it so much I love it. Let me try to explain. Both of my children are getting married this summer, my daughter and my son. Since I'm hosting the rehearsal dinner for my son, my future daughter-in-law and I have been scouting locations. And […]
I spent yesterday afternoon writing copy for my website. Seeing as how this is a chore that's been hanging over my head for a year, it felt good to finish it. And the way I finished it was to tell myself that good was good enough. It didn't have to be perfect, I told myself. […]
I'm not entirely certain I can explain this. But, as always, that never stopped me and I'll give it a go. As I've mentioned before, I'm studying marketing, of the internet and other varieties. My new favorite expert in this field is Lisa Sasevich, and one of the things she talks about a lot is […]
When I was working on my MFA, I attended a lecture extolling the virtues of not writing. (I actually think I wrote a post on this topic–ah yes, here it is.) The talk was presented by one of the MFA faculty, a prolific writer herself. Yet most of the time I exhort people to write […]
The last few weeks, I've been running a feature called Festive Fridays on, well, Fridays. But, I have to say, the party has been a bit of a dud. Or at least it seems so to me. The posts don't get any comments and I'm certainly not receiving breathless emails urging me to keep them […]
Monday night I arrived home from Nashville. Tuesday morning I awoke with a to-do list a mile long. Lots of it consisted of emails (sometimes I think my entire work life besides writing consists of emails) because honestly, one day away from the computer to fly home and the emails multiply like rabbits. But there […]
When I wrote my post last week on Why You Need a Book, I gave a somewhat sketchy list of reasons (hey, I was low on time!) and promised to write more about each one if there was enough interest. And, it turns out, there was. So herewith are more information on the first three […]
In the most recent edition of my newsletter, The Abundant Writer, I wrote a feature article called 7 Simple Steps to Write Your Book. (For those of you who don't subscribe to the newsletter, there's a spiffy little box on the upper right-hand corner of this page.) I based it on the new free report […]
Yesterday's blog post was about the fine art of being who you are. I didn't really mean to write a follow-up post, but as is sometimes the case, yesterday's post caused a lot of comment and got a lot of traffic. Which always makes me realize I've hit a nerve. And makes me ponder more […]
