I’ve received many emails, letters, and even a few postcards, expressing the same thing: “I want to be a writer.” Many of the senders go on to ask the inevitable question: “Am…
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Note: This is a guest post by Claire De Boer, she is a certified Journal Instructor and teaches online workshops at www.thegiftofwriting.com. Download her free eBook, “Soul Writing,” and follow her…
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Update: I have teamed up with award winning book cover designer, Alexander von Ness, to offer, in addition to the prizes already offered, an all-in-one book cover design package for 1st place. That’s a…
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I’ve been stuck lately. Way stuck. Lost in the Amazon jungle, stuck. And that’s stuck, my friends. If you need to use the word stuck five or six times within your…
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Can you remember the last time you were in the presence of a true storyteller? When we run into those people, at parties or as neighbors or in the next…
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Last year I ran a contest about becoming a writer. I asked people to write their story about the moment when they knew they were a writer. The stories came in…
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Okay, seriously, the first thing you need to do is step away from that thought, slowly. Go ahead, step away. It’s going to be okay. – I mean it. Really. It’s going…
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The below post is a short excerpt from Writer’s Doubt. (Some of the content in the book has changed due to rewrites and editing, and this excerpt was adapted for use as a stand alone blog…
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I’m pleased to announce that my new book Writer’s Doubt is now available on Amazon in Kindle format! Whewwww! That was a long needed sigh of relief and of accomplishment. Writer’s Doubt…
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Writing’s easy; editing’s hard. Getting lost in the fun and the discovery of putting down words can make up for the times when the words don’t come easily. But it’s…