Top 10 Lessons I learned from my beloved Hoshi. What an amazing pet! Tell us about your pets.

by Charlotte Carter Every writer gets rejects. But they don’t have to be demoralizing. Some years ago I was writing magazine articles. I’d allow myself ten rejects per article then moved onto something else. (I did manage to sell a ‘few’ articles, but what a struggle!) During that time I had my annual physical exam. […]

  By Laura Drake This novel writing is very hard stuff.  Trying to learn craft while balancing plot, ideas, genre, and market. How anyone finishes a novel amazes me. Sometimes it feels like I’m golfing and juggling . . . at the same time. We all have our own ways not to write. You know […]

I learned about the four character requirements of teamwork: openness, generosity, flexibility and patience. Of course I thought of how this applies to writing. Many writers feel that they are flying solo when nothing could be further than the truth. The process of getting a book published requires a massive amount of teamwork and every single one of the above qualities.

Woody Allen said, “80% of success is showing up.”

Julia Cameron discusses at length that “the role of an artist is to show up for the work and allow it to move through them.”

My New Year’s resolution for 2011 is to show up for my writing. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?