Please welcome Erin Mahoney to This Writer’s Life. She’s one of my private students and the author of Side Hustle Gigs, A Step by Step Guide to a Profitable Side Business. This Writer’s Life(TWL)-Let’s start with you telling everyone about yourself and how you got interested in side gigs? Erin Mahoney (EM)-By education and training,…
Category: Author Interviews
Tuesday Guest Blogger-Gayle M. Irwin
Say hello to this week’s guest blogger, Gayle M. Irwin… I began writing books in 2007. However, I’ve been a writer for nearly 30 years. My career began at a small, western Montana town newspaper as a reporter and photographer. Less than 10 years later, I became reporter and editor for the West Yellowstone News…
Tuesday Guest Blogger-Dee S. Knight
Today, Dee S. Knight is back to tell us why she’s a fan of Law and Order…hint, it has something to do with great writing! I’m sitting here watching Law & Order re-runs during lunch and thinking of all the things I should be doing, like working on a short story due in a…
Tuesday Guest Blogger-Luanna Stewart
Say hello to today’s guest blogger, Luanna Stewart… When did you begin writing? My first book was published in 2010, under a previous pen name, and I’d been writing for a couple years before that. What’s been your biggest challenge? About six months after I started writing (with the idea of some day publishing) I…
Tuesday Guest Blogger…Okay, It’s Thursday
Due to my error with the sign up forms, this week, there are two Tuesday Guest Bloggers. Say hello to LB Joyce…. When did you begin writing? I began writing about five years ago and believe me, it was something I never expected to take on. I have always loved to read, but write?…
Debut of the New Tuesday Guest Bloggers
I said we’d try something different this year. A new day for the guest bloggers to take center stage along with a Q and A format with the same questions for everyone. I thought it would be fun for you to read how the author got started, why they chose their genre and their writing…
How to Live a Writer’s Life
Say hello to today’s guest blogger Jeanne Oates Estridge who has some tips about living the writing life…. 1) Open yourself to every experience that comes along. Play soccer. Work in a commercial kitchen. Go fly fishing. Hunt for diamonds. Try exotic foods. Your characters are going to need lots and lots of interesting experiences…
How I Plot My Novels with Joan Ramirez
Say hello to this week’s guest blogger, Joan Ramirez, who tells us how she plots her novels… I’m a great believer in exercise as stimulus for writing a novel. While doing yoga, I tune into my inner psyche to think about my protagonist and how I will introduce her to the reader in the first…
NaNoWriMo (Nano) Encouragement
Madeline McEwen is back with us again to offer words of encouragement during NaNoWriMo and share her wonderful cartoons… If you are reading this at 23:59 you are almost half way through the Nano experience. Whether you’re a first timer or a seasoned aficionado, either way, at this point you may be beginning to feel…
Are You Overwriting?
Say hello to today’s guest blogger, Ann Everett who offers us advice on something that can often be an Achilles’ heel even for published writers… Overwriting: This is a mistake all new writers make. They over explain either through description or action. Heck, in first drafts, I still do it. Here are some examples: Gus pulled his gun belt tight…