Heard of something called a ghostwriter and wondered what that means? Basically, they write for other people. You could be hired by a business person who has a brilliant idea for a book but hasn’t got the time or talent to write it themselves. Could be someone needing to give a speech but doesn’t know…
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Monday Motivation-Hold Onto Your Dreams
Your dream is to write. What are you doing to make that happen?
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Short Stories
My focus this week has been on short stories. Not writing them, but updating and revamping my old short story class to add lots more features and goodies for students. I’ve decided to add two different classes so I can offer one at a lower price and one a higher priced one with more features….
February Writing Challenge
Are you ready for a writing challenge? We’re ten days away from February, the shortest month of the year so let’s have a writing challenge here at This Writer’s Life? Each day, I’ll post something that I hope will inspire you to write that day. It could be a prompt or a writing tip or…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-The To Do List
Just when I thought I had my January to do list all worked out, I realized I need to be more organized. I’ve been working on the new format for the short story class and realized I had files here and files there and pulling everything together was making it seem like I was going…
Monday Motivation-It’s Possible
Does writing a book or getting published seem impossible to you? As you sit down to write this week, keep these words by Nelson Mandala in mind.
Monday Motivation-The Odds Might Be Against You But…
Some people laughed at me when I said I was going to write a book and become a published author. Sometimes the odds are stacked against us but don’t let anyone stand in your way. Put in the time, put in the effort, don’t give up and you’ll defy those odds.
Friday Ramblings From An Author-The Final Post of 2020
Another year almost over. Yes, it’s been a strange one for all of us. I hope you achieved all your goals and if not, like I always say, there’s always tomorrow and now, next year. I think I got most things on my to do list completed. Well, maybe a few are a little behind…
The Writer’s Life-The Year in Review
2020 is almost over so for this final Thursday post of the year, I thought I’d do a year in review for This Writer’s Life. Here are some of the stats- 244 posts which totaled 67,395 words The most popular day and time for visitors was Mondays at 1 a.m. Followers passed the 1,000 point…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Cookies and Cocoa
Our final Wednesday Writing Prompt for 2020. Next year we’ll be changing format slightly. I hope you’ve found these prompts useful, created a story or two, and even sold a story or two. For this one, the words cookies and cocoa have to appear in your story three times. Once in narration, once in an…