Monday Motivation-Don’t Give Up
My favorite writing tip is never give up so I thought we’d launch 2020 Monday Motivation with this very appropriate quote. Let this guide you through the decade and beyond…..
Friday Ramblings From An Author-The Last of 2019
Here we are at the end of another year at TWL. We haven’t quite made it to 1,000 followers but I know we’ll get there in 2020. I have some new books to share with you but as I want to keep this short, I’ll tell you more about them in the first Ramblings…
Monday Motivation-What Do You Want in 2020?
This is our last Monday Motivation for 2019. I recently found this quote and thought it a really powerful one. While it could be applied to any pursuit, use it to ask yourself if writing a book, becoming a freelance writer, or even beginning your journey as an author, is in your plans for 2020?…
Five Questions to Ask Post NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo 2019 is history. Congratulations to everyone who took the challenge and finished. It’s no small achievement. Now the question is what do you do with the story, here’s five I asked myself after I took the challenge for the first time in 2013. Did It Go As Planned? I don’t know about you, but…
On Your Marks, Get Set….Go-NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo starts on Friday. Who’s taking part this year? I’m so, so tempted to tackle it because I have a story brewing in my head but I know what with teaching and planning upcoming classes, I’m not going to have time. Good luck to everyone who’s going to do it. Remember you’re a winner just…
What Should You Write and What Should You Avoid?
Today, I thought I’d share with you a process I go through when I’m in writing coach mode. My first question to a client is what type of book are you planning to write and in a couple of sentences, tell me about its plot. I’m hearing more of the same thing and as…
Five Tips for NaNoWriMo
On Monday, I’ll begin teaching How To Get Ready for NaNoWriMo for the very last time. The class is going into retirement and eventually into the archived classes over at my Zenler writing school portal. Today, I thought I’d share with you what I think are the top five tips you need to know to stand the…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Goodbye August
Today, the short story boot camp came to an end and I have a week off from teaching before the final leg of the year kicks off. Here’s the link to the two classes I’m teaching next month just in case anyone’s interested. One is a plotting your novel boot camp, and the other one,…
Self-Publishing is a Gift To Writers (and let’s not forget it)
I’ve been talking about my summer reading list and how I didn’t finish three of the books. I chose another three and today, gave up reading the first one on this new list. Please excuse me if I now climb onto my soapbox. I can’t say for sure if all the books on my didn’t read…
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How To Recharge Your Story
If you’re anything like me, you have one (okay, more than one), story sitting on your computer that you started and never finished. I’ve lost count how many I’ve had in that suspended state. Not all of them have gone on to be completed, but a lot have. I thought I’d share with you five…
