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31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 21
Take It a Step at a Time. You’ve set your 2025 goal. This is going to be the year when you write your book. Or start your copywriting career. Or become a rock star on social media. Or build your writer...
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31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 16
Combat Complacency. Complacency is a dangerous disease that may infect any writer, especially after having a fair degree of writing success. When that happens, you can start feeling a little smug or...
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31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 14
Do Your Research. Unless you are writing for an audience of one (yourself), you need to create a list of target markets for your work to get the results you desire. This can be a list of agents and...
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31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 4
Focus on Successes. Success can take many forms. It can be an acceptance by an editor, publisher or agent. But success can also be completing a project, writing about something that challenged you...
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31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 1
Set Your Writing Goal It can be starting a major project (a book, for example), making a career move (becoming a freelance writer) or improving your writing or marketing skills. How do you decide what...
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Thoughts on writing and life for August 2024
Just a few thoughts on how midlife can be our most creative stage—if we are open to it. This is an edited excerpt from my August 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.) You can also listen...
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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.8.24
Words for writers from Stephen King The post Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.8.24 appeared first on The Writer's Place.
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The Writer Life—Guest Post by Dawn Reno Langley
Dawn Reno Langley I’ve been a writer for so long that I don’t have any idea what it is to not be one. For me, a writer’s life means spending a lot of time in front of a computer screen trying to imbibe...
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Thoughts on writing and life for January 2024
Photo by Oliver Roos on Unsplash Just a few thoughts on why we need to do “different” to have “different.” This is an edited excerpt from my January 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)...
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Blog Post Round-up for 2023
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash As my final post on The Writer’s Place, I decided to highlight some of the posts from this year that you might have missed. Check them out and then share your...
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Thoughts on writing and life for December 2023
Photo by Samuel Rios on Unsplash Just a few thoughts on the importance of being willing to make revisions: in writing and in life. This is an edited excerpt from my December 2023 newsletter, The...
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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 10.4.23
Words for writers from Maya Angelou The post Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 10.4.23 appeared first on The Writer's Place.
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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 8.30.23
Words for writers from Henry David Thoreau The post Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 8.30.23 appeared first on The Writer's Place.
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Thoughts on writing and life for August 2023
Just a few thoughts on why it’s important to pay attention when Opportunity knocks and then decide how to handle the summons. This is an edited excerpt from my August 2023 newsletter, The Writing Life....
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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.5.23
Words for writers from Jane Smiley The post Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.5.23 appeared first on The Writer's Place.
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“Who are you?” — Answering the Caterpillar’s Question
Photo by pure julia on Unsplash “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least...
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Thoughts on writing and life for June 2023
Just a few thoughts on why writers need a personal manifesto to keep them on track This is an edited excerpt from my June 2023 newsletter, The Writing Life. You can also listen to it on my Living the...
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Thoughts On Writing and Life for January 2023
Photo by Alexa Williams on Unsplash Why we need to match our writing goals and plans to our definition of writing success This is an edited excerpt from my January 2023 newsletter, The Writing Life....
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Thoughts on writing and life for September 2022
Photo by David Iskander on Unsplash The importance of developing a writer’s mission statement. Just a few thoughts on why you should develop a mission statement to guide you through your writing life....
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Thoughts on writing and life for June 2022
The power to protect the light of our creativity rests with us. Photo by Eyasu Etsub on Unsplash Just a few thoughts on the need to protect the light of creativity and how the power to do so rests with...
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