I've got a guest post this morning over at Sandi Amorim's blog. It's on how authentic creativity is self-love. Won't you check it out? Here's the site: Deva Coaching. And I've got one more thing for you. Remember how I reviewed the Artist's Way Toolkit site? Well, the site is offfering a free promo. If […]
I had a brainstorm yesterday. As is my wont (for some reason I absolutely love that phrase), I was visiting my usual haunts on the internet, among them the Pioneer Woman's blog. And there I found that she is putting on her advice columnist hat and answering questions about reader's problems. And the thought occurred […]
This is a paid review for BlogHer Book Club, but the opinions are mine. Regular readers of this blog know that I'm a huge fan of Julia Cameron. I've done the program laid out in The Artist's Way on my own and in groups led by Julia herself (in Taos, New Mexico, one of my […]
Did you choose three words (or one word) to live by this year? Have you checked back to see how you're doing with these words? Last December, in a post titled Three Powerful Words for An Amazing New Year, I announced my words and the thought behind them. Since we're halfway (gasp) through the year, […]
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How many words do you put on the page in a typical writing session? 500? 1,000? When I wrote my novel, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior, my deal with myself was to write 2,000 words a day. Didn't matter when I wrote them, but if I hadn't written them before bedtime, I had to stay up […]
I've been mulling the concept of momentum in writing lately, because I think I'm finally getting some in my new novel. As I pondered, I hit on the idea of writing velocity. What is writing velocity? Here's the dictionary definition of velocity: "the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of […]
Last night, one of the members of my writing group got married. All but one of the current members of the group were there, and a couple former members turned up as well. Talk turned, as it will amongst such groups, to rejection. Soon we were attempting to outdo each other with how many rejections […]
No matter what you're writing, memoir, fiction or even web copy, character is everything. You've got to know your character through and through in order to write successfully. This was brought home to me all over again last week, when I spent the week with my daughter and her baby and learned, first hand, what […]
While I'm on retreat, I've got a variety of guest posts for you. Today, please welcome Resham Khiani, as she writes about morning pages. It's Between the Page and I, 6 Things I Learned Over 10 Days of Morning Pages by Resham Khiani It's 8:00am on Saturday morning. Another long, hard week in London has […]
