I know NaNoWriMo isn’t over yet but as it slowly draws to a close it’s time to think about what to do once it’s over. Celebrate The first thing to do is celebrate. And this isn’t just for people who got to 50,000 words. If you wrote something and had never written before, way to go. If you got…
The other day I was searching a site that had quotes by famous authors. This one by Ernest Hemingway jumped out at me… Write Drunk Edit Sober Maybe he intended us to take that literally, maybe not. Either way, he summed up the writing process perfectly. I always tell my students if there’s only one…
I’ve never reviewed products here at TWL before but I was recently approached by a company to do just that. So disclaimer up front, I received the product in exchange for an honest review. What is the product and why did I agree to review it and share it with you? It a software program…
Fingers are flying across the keyboards, the muse has taken over and you’re in the zone. That’s great, that’s what we want but sometimes the excitement about writing something truly wonderful can make you all too eager to hit the send button or press, publish. Yes, I’ve done it. I’ve been guilty of it as both a freelance…
Most of you know for the last year or so I’ve been self-publishing my non-fiction books, but recently ventured into fiction too. I got my feet wet by re-releasing a title when the rights were returned to me. In the next few months more of my book contracts expire which means I’ll be doing more…
This year’s NaWriNoMo challenge is history. I took part for the second year and here are a few things I discovered about writing and also myself as a writer- Some Days Are Tough There were a few days where my fingers flew across the keys. Sometimes they found it hard to keep up with my…
Yes, I know I said that This Writer’s Life was back on track and then I didn’t post another entry for over a month. One of the drawbacks of writing a lot is it translates into editing a lot. I just got done with a whole bunch of edits for upcoming stories and hopefully I’ll…
