Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold In our ongoing look at what wisdom Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements can offer writers, we come to agreement number three. [Click here for Agreement 1 and Agreement 2.] Don’t Make Assumptions Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others […]

What's the time management secret that's sure to help us all get TONS more writing done? "Yes makes less." It's my new favorite motto. If you've never heard of Steven Pressfield or Shawn Coyne, you're missing out on some amazing lessons. Pressfield wrote The War of Art (edited by Coyne) and they often blog about creativity. […]

James Preston So, What's In It For You? Or, How To Not Quit I  know what you are thinking, if you have read some of my earlier contributions to this award-winning blog. "Oh, no, he's going to make me get out a calculator and see if the midpoint of my novel is really a watershed, […]

 You know I’m the cheerleader of the WITS bunch, right? I’m the old lady jumping up and down on the sidelines in a too-short skirt so tight that the zipper won’t go up all the way, yelling my head off, telling writers they can DO this! Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that every […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold Continuing to mine Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements for wisdom applicable to writers, we come to number two—and it’s a doozy. Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When […]