I did an interview last week and was asked about writer’s block. Real solid, beat your head against the desk writer’s block. And the answer I gave during the interview has stuck with me. I’ve been thinking about it ever since. You see, I don’t...
There’s a common thread that runs through the disappointment that comes with low sales or publisher and agent rejections. When you submit a proposal for a conference and it doesn’t get accepted or when you submit a resume for a job and you don’t get...
Maybe it’s a weekend or a vacation from work, either way you have your goal in mind and are excited to see what you can achieve. Or maybe it’s just a very ordinary day and you have a daily writing plan that…just never happens? Or there’s a...
When you consult your to do app, the next item on the list is “write” and often there’s a word count attached. You open the file. You try to write, but you keep getting distracted, scrolling through social media or having other projects interrupt....
I put 1125 words on my writing tracker last night, which goes by weeks, and realized those were the first words I’d written since November 2. Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why and even before last week’s events, I was dealing...
