Since I seem to be failing miserably at soliciting guest bloggers for Friday (anybody interested, leave me a comment) I will use today’s post as an excuse to write about some bits and pieces, mostly gleaned from Poets and Writers magazine. I generally have mixed feelings about writing magazines. They seem to range from the […]
The wonderful Jen at Semi-charmed wife passed on the Excellence Award to me. Thanks, Jen! Now I get to pass it on to others. I’d choose Jen because she has a great blog but I can’t because she’s already gotten in. So here are my choices (and let me just say these are a combination […]
So, mindfulness and being present are a hot topic these days, what with Oprah crashing web servers as she presents teleseminars with the flat-liner Eckhardt Tolle. For those of you who aren’t familiar with him he has written The Power of Now, and A New Earth, both of which were doing quite well in sales. […]
A couple of weeks ago on American Idol, contestant David Cook did a video sharing his love of doing crossword puzzles. Simon, @#$%hole that he is, told David he didn’t think he’d done himself any favors with the video, implying that doing crossword puzzles was a somewhat wimpy activity at odds with David Cook’s hard-rocking […]
Where do writers get ideas? Ideas are like men or money–they always come when you already have plenty. The more you tend them, the more they multiple. Ideas beget ideas. The more ideas you have, the more you’ll get. Okay, I’ve repeated myself enough, you get the picture. In order to start the idea train […]
"Every magazine has its own policy and makes a definite appeal to a certain clientele. Study these and take them into consideration when offering your wares for any market." Sounds like sound advice for the free-lance writer, no? You’ve probably read something similar recently. But that advice was written in 1921 by Emma Gary Wallace […]
What will it take you to commit to writing? In my travels as a writer, teacher, and coach, I’ve listened to students and clients and people on the street tell me their stories about writing, or more to the point, Not Writing. What I hear is that many of these people have always had a […]
So, I’ve been playing around with the plot of my next novel. I actually had started writing it but I got stuck and realized I needed to go back to the beginning and figure some things out, such as what the story was about. Yeah, that minor little detail. While part of the joy of […]
I decided to take a break from my incessant harping on why you should be writing (don’t worry, I’ll be back at it tomorrow). Thought you might like a post on an aspect of craft for a wee change, and so today’s topic is symbolism. Yawn. I know, it sounds tres literary and very deep […]
Recently, I’ve been posting about the writing bogs. Since I coach writers in how to, well, write, this is a topic of particular interest to me. It’s not because I’ve ever struggled with the issue of getting myself to write. I always never have problems with writing. But in case you do, help is at […]
