How We Write: Crunchy
Heads down in a three-quarters completed draft, I’m also coaching an author preparing for the same creative battle: making story and characters come alive by force of will and your imagination alone....
View ArticleHow We Write: The Soul of the Matter
My Soul of the Matter posts are usually about my life and the life I see going on around me, and how I try to change daily the things I let prevent me from actually living. Because surviving isn’t...
View ArticleHow We Write: When we’re waiting, and waiting, and waiting…
Writing like we’re on fire is every author’s dream. Creating free and feeling the juice and dying to find out what happens next. But how is that zone possible, when your control of the “business”...
View ArticleThe Soul of the Matter: Love the One You’re With…
Writers aren’t all that different for saner mortals. Even though most of us wear our freak flags like parade banners. As part of our every-day, we offer ourselves up for rejection–the very reality we...
View ArticleHow We Write: Deconstructing BEFORE Rewriting. No more excuses…
Anyone–ANYONE–can deconstruct and rewrite a manuscript. Anyone can learn to rework a story one scene at a time. And we’re talking rewriting–NOT copy editing a manuscript to catch punctuation or...
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