The moment to write is now
“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last…The future is not guaranteed.” Wayne Dyer When I do my writing workshops, one of the assignments I give my students is for...
View ArticleDoes your writing place support your writing goals?
“When your physical environment is in alignment with your aspiration, success becomes the norm.” Susan St Lawrence A few years ago, I undertook some major interior design tasks. I ripped out all the...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Are you ready to make the most of 2013? I am! Writer with a Day Job I have already developed my goals list (I am an inveterate list-maker anyway so this was no problem) and developed what I hope will...
View ArticleLooking back at 2013
With 2013 drawing to a close, I wanted to take a look back at what I accomplished in terms of my writing goals and where I am heading in 2014. While I don’t wait until December 31 to measure my...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Recovering from too much holidaying? Okay, I’ll cut you some slack but only in the time it takes for you to grab some coffee (or whatever helps wake you up!) and your writing tools-of-choice, because...
View ArticleTaking a break from pre-pub activities
On my Finding Fran blog, I had recently written a post about how different it is being an author today versus what it was like 10 years ago when my first book came out. For example, tomorrow is the...
View ArticleCan keeping a journal help keep me on track?
I keep a journal. Unfortunately, my journal-keeping is, at best, erratic, as is its purpose. Sometimes, I use it to make notes on story ideas but more often than not, it is my place to vent, to...
View ArticleSetting writing goals? Make them SMART—and flexible!
It wouldn’t be January if there wasn’t a surfeit of books, articles and blog posts about goals. Figuring out what your goals are—or should be Figuring out how you’re going to achieve them Figuring out...
View ArticleThree Tips To Help You Juggle All Those Writing “Balls”
One of my recent posts at The Writer’s Place, 5 Tips for Dealing with “Work-in-Progress” Woes, led indirectly to a comment on another site about how hard it was to stay on top of multiple writing...
View ArticleWriting wherever and whenever, and other thoughts
So I am sitting at the laundromat, writing this long overdue post. In my defense, my to-do list is pretty overloaded right now, but I can’t let another day (week? month?) go by without writing...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Are you ready to make the most of 2013? I am! Writer with a Day Job I have already developed my goals list (I am an inveterate list-maker anyway so this was no problem) and developed what I hope will...
View ArticleLooking back at 2013
With 2013 drawing to a close, I wanted to take a look back at what I accomplished in terms of my writing goals and where I am heading in 2014. While I don’t wait until December 31 to measure my...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Recovering from too much holidaying? Okay, I’ll cut you some slack but only in the time it takes for you to grab some coffee (or whatever helps wake you up!) and your writing tools-of-choice, because...
View ArticleTaking a break from pre-pub activities
On my Finding Fran blog, I had recently written a post about how different it is being an author today versus what it was like 10 years ago when my first book came out. For example, tomorrow is the...
View ArticleCan keeping a journal help keep me on track?
I keep a journal. Unfortunately, my journal-keeping is, at best, erratic, as is its purpose. Sometimes, I use it to make notes on story ideas but more often than not, it is my place to vent, to...
View ArticleSetting writing goals? Make them SMART—and flexible!
It wouldn’t be January if there wasn’t a surfeit of books, articles and blog posts about goals. Figuring out what your goals are—or should be Figuring out how you’re going to achieve them Figuring out...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Recovering from too much holidaying? Okay, I’ll cut you some slack but only in the time it takes for you to grab some coffee (or whatever helps wake you up!) and your writing tools-of-choice, because...
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