Y’see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I’ll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I’m wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn’t write them as […]
via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Creating New Characters — A Great Day To Be Alive
“The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.” ~Ridley Pearson
via ✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~Becoming a Better Writer — A Great Day To Be Alive
So I see a lot of posts in the writing community about having to make massive cuts to their work because they wrote too much. Which is a very desirable problem to me because I have the exact opposite problem. I finished the first draft of my Work In Progress and it clocks in at […]
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Somebody asked me what it’s like to be a writer. I thought about it for a bit, then said, “It’s difficult to put it into words.” Sometimes I get confused about why I keep writing. Between the agonizing labor required to bring forth a fully finished plot and going through all of the multiple steps […]
Emptyheaded; So quiet in there; Wondering where all the loud thoughts disappeared to; Can’t seem to find a single stray thought to hold on to; As if they are hiding away from me; Afraid of what I’d do to them; The silence is deafening; Even with music in my ears; It feels like it’s […]
“Writing is an extreme privilege but it’s also a gift. It’s a gift to yourself and it’s a gift of giving a story to someone.” ~ Amy Tan
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Now that’s a headline I never expected to write, but here we are. As a writer, I thought staying home and social distancing would be life as usual. But I was wrong. I’m missing the public library and the two university libraries where I do much of my research. And I’m missing the two or […]
Writing a blog isn’t as glamorous as you might think. (If you think it’s glamorous at all, that is). And I have to admit, most days I have a blank space where my post should be. I just can’t think of anything to write and it gets really frustrating. So I stare out the window, […]
I am wondering if today’s post will be Mid-week Middle-aged Musings or Wuss-out Wednesday. I guess I’ll start typing and see what happens (and by “typing,” of course I mean tapping one letter at a time with the stylus on my Tablet). This is not the illustration I was looking for, but I think it […]
As with any career path, there are pros and cons to it. Being a writer is no different. I know over the years of being on this path I have thought several times about quitting and pursuing something else… and every time I would realize that nothing makes me happier than writing and reading, so […]
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