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To Live By… Failure.
We learn from failure. Meet The Robinsons is one of the most inspiring movies I’ve ever seen. We should all take a page out of this script and live by it. Write On, Writers.Filed under: Author,...
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What Makes A Writer
“I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote simply for money. What makes a writer is that he likes writing. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it...
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You’re Actually Writing, Right?
You wrote your first book. Now you’re marketing it on every social media site you can think of. Or maybe you’re on submission and you’ve chewed your fingernails to bits with nervous energy at the...
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A Week In Links
I invest a ludicrous amount of time reading. Whether I read novels, blogs, craft books or research material, I always try to find useful or inspiring bits of information each week. And then I save...
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Writers Who Are Readers and Readers Who Are Writers
Which one are you? I’m the latter. Definitely. Although I’ve always written, my love of the written word began before my sentence structure did. My imagination of worlds far and beyond sparked at a...
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Always Dream
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ~William Faulkner Filed under: Author,...
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Fear Stops Most People …
“If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me? You are a human being with a unique story to tell....
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Wait … Should I Write That?
There is a moment now and then when writers may catch themselves and think … wait, should I write that? My fellow writer, and friend, Elena Ransley wrote a post titled, Just because I write it,...
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THE 8 Rules for Writing
I know most writers have seen, read or heard of Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules for Writing. Obviously you guys have figured out that I am huge fan of his work—I am also a huge fan of his advice. Here it is:...
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Nobody tells this to beginners …
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you...
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