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…
Tag: authorship
Writing-One Style Does Not Fit All
Have you ever picked up a writing how to book and followed the tips only to find they don’t work? Before you go blaming the author for giving you worthless advice, think about this… Think about something besides writing that you wanted to learn. Drive a car, learn to ski, play the guitar… Did you…
Five Exercises for Creating Characters Your Reader Will Love
My plot’s going nowhere. I can’t seem to get past chapter three. Sound familiar? Think it’s a plotting problem? Well, it might be but most of the time it’s a character problem. You’ve spent weeks working on your plot but haven’t given any thought to the type of person or persons who will live your…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-First One of 2021
How did you first week of 2021 turn out? I hope you got lots of writing done…even got an acceptance letter or call about a story. This week seemed strange because for the first time in 12 years, I’m not teaching a class. I did however, begin work on the first class I’ll be uploading…
Biggest Writing Hurdle
If I asked you what you feel is the biggest hurdle to getting a book written what would be your answer? If you would have asked me that about ten years ago, I would have quickly responded, lack of a good plot, flat characters, etc. However, after tutoring, teaching and coaching, here’s the answer Lack…
Welcome to the New Site
Happy New Year to you all. This Writer’s Life site has now gone from WordPress.com over to WordPress.org and I hope all followers and subscribers will receive this post. If someone could let me know you are, that would be great. You can send me an e-mail at writerslifeblog@gmail.com I’m going to use this post…
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…
Monday Motivation-Two Powerful Forces
Our last Monday Motivation of the year. I hope you’ve found this year’s quotes inspiring. Lots more to come next year and maybe a motivation challenge or two! I picked this one because it includes two words, dreams and dedication. Possess those two things and you’re on your way to being a success not just…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-It Doesn’t Look a Lot Like Christmas
No snow…I haven’t written that on December 11th in…well, I can’t remember if I ever have. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining because it’s been mild and the sort of late fall temps I prefer. I’ve been preparing to switch this site from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. I’ll be getting some help with it so…