August 21st, 2017
How to Successfully Ask, “Can I Pick Your Brain?”
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Blogging Guests | Craft
We’ve all heard it. Sometimes we groan, sometimes we delight, depending on the situation and where you are in your publishing journey. You’re at a Friday evening neighborhood barbecue when the man down the street approaches you, cautiously, but also sort of expectantly, too:
“Can I pick your brain?”
As we grow in our careers, the demands on our time triple.… Read the post
May 15th, 2017
Divine Inspiration… Or Not: Mining Your Life for Story
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Craft | Writer's Life
A few weeks ago, the fabulous Kimberly Brock wrote a post about the fear of the blank page. She claimed that there are people who love it and she called them psychopaths and equated it to jumping out of airplanes.… Read the post
February 20th, 2017
Bad Review Blues - Some Perspective from the Trenches
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Blogging Guests | Writer's Life
From the moment you hit send on those final pass pages or click submit to upload all your hard work to Amazon, the novel you lovingly poured your heart into for the past two, five, ten years now belongs to everyone but you.… Read the post
November 21st, 2016
How to Preserve Your Creative Self In Times of Trouble
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Blogging Guests | Writer's Life
This is not going to be a political post. But I am going to talk about politics. Sort of.
As writers, we’re sensitive souls. We observe the world around us, and as Kimberly Brock called us in a beautiful post earlier this week, we’re lightning collectors.… Read the post
August 15th, 2016
Does Genre Dumb it Down or Make it Rain?
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Blogging Guests
We writers spend a lot of time online. Facebook, twitter, forums, groups, message boards, I could go on. We debate. We talk about craft and commas and grammar and agents and publishers and eventually someone will bring up genre and everyone will silently groan because the only conversation that rivals genre is “Plotting vs.… Read the post
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