While surfing around today I stumbled on a thread at Whitepapersource.com in which writers answered the question: How Do You Make Yourself Sit and Actually Write? The most alarming response
According to Richard Wiseman, a professor at Britain’s University of Hertfordshire, You Make Your Own Luck. Professor Wiseman, “. . . has conducted some experiments which indicate to him that
I just read an article about a company that allows you to “test-drive” your dream job. Check out Vocation Vacations.com. While the list of available dream job vacations included food
I had an interesting conversation with some other writers yesterday about “Show, Don’t Tell.” One woman was concerned that the memoir she was writing would become too historical, too broad
Today, during the continuation of my current dry spell, I remembered, “When submitting a manuscript to a publisher use a 12-point, non-proportional font (Courier – YES; Times Roman – NO!).”
When you build a house, you start with a dream. Then you hire an architect to create a floor plan and the blueprints and you hire a contractor to hire
Anne Tyler’s new book is out! Digging to America. Must buy! Must buy in hardback! Dear Muse: Please make me a writer worthy of someone purchasing my book in hardcover.
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” – Austin Phelps
Does walking around the neighborhood thinking about how nice it would be to turn your neighbor’s house into a studio so you could really get some work done count as
The memoir I’m writing resulted from my participation in National Novel Writing Month 2004. Yes, I know, everyone else was writing fiction. I cheated. NaNoWriMo, as it is affectionally called,
