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You’ve heard me mention Skillshare many times and that I teach on that platform. Next year I plan to upload two classes per month comprising of The Novel Writing Blueprint and The Freelance Writing Blueprint. They’ll be standalone classes but I think you’ll get more out of the experience if you follow along…
I’ve been sorting through half-finished manuscripts stored on my laptop. And as many of you know, I’ve also been revamping stories whose rights have been returned to me. These are older stories I wrote 5 or more years ago and revisiting them is teaching me a lot and hopefully making me a better writer…
In my last Ramblings I mentioned that I wanted to pen a post about writing through painful events in your life so here it is. If you didn’t see last Friday’s Ramblings you won’t know that I recently learned that someone who was(and I should say, still is), very special to me, had passed…
Almost at the mid-way point and how are things going? My tip today is food centric. I’ve found that if I write while I’m hungry I’m not as productive. They say our brains need fuel like the rest of our bodies so maybe that’s got something to do with it. Even if you don’t…
I didn’t get time to post anything yesterday because I was busy throughout the day and then ended up writing until about 10 p.m. How are things going for you? We’re a week into the challenge and is it easier or harder than you thought? My tip is don’t worry if you feel you…
I’m currently taking a break from today’s writing sprint which is also my tip of the day. Some people don’t like to quit writing until they’re done with their word count but I like to stop every fifteen minutes or so and take a break and stretch my legs or even grab of cup of tea.
I’m teaching a two week synopsis writing boot camp starting on July 1st. There are just three spots left so if you or anyone you know what’s to learn the art of writing a synopsis, here’s a link for more details and how to sign up- http://www.oirwa.com/forum/campus/#JUL
The dreaded rejection letter. The writer’s equivalent of a dear john letter. They’re a necessary evil that goes hand in hand with being an author who’s continually writing and submitting their work. I’ve had my share of them and once I even received two in one day. Ouch! Another time I received someone else’s…
I’m teaching two workshops that both begin tomorrow- The first one is Writing the Continuing Story and Trilogy which is offered through the Outreach Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Here’s the link with all the details- http://www.oirwa.com/forum/campus/ And Crafting the Short Story is my first time teaching for the Maryland…
I didn’t plan to publish the second book in my Writing Genre Fiction until next month, but I got ahead of schedule and published it through Amazon KDP Direct yesterday. Once again it’s just 99 cents and here’s the link if you want to pick up a copy-