by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My favorite way to write is in fifteen minute sessions. That’s short enough for me to stay laser-focused on my story, but long enough to make some real [...]
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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig What is inspiration? I don’t think ‘inspiration’ is synonymous with ‘ideas’. I get ideas and don’t feel necessarily inspired. To me, inspiration is more of that creative rush [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I wanted to pass along a helpful goal-setting and tracking tool for writers. I’ve gotten very into tracking lately. I especially like it when it’s easy to [...]
by Reyna Marder Gentin, @reynagentin When I tell people I’m writing a novel, their first questions are often about logistics — when do you write, where do you write, do you write a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I’m not a perfectionist. There are too many typos for that to be the case. There was a time, however, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve always kept a journal…well, since first grade, anyway. I look back on those childhood diaries and wonder who that person was. My adult journaling has been a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes dealing with both creative work and the business end can be overwhelming. On any given day, I’m brainstorming plots, researching a new promo approach, and reading articles [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was stumped a couple of months ago by a question from a very sharp writer in a high school creative writing class. He asked me what I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As I mentioned Monday in the first part of this post, I hadn’t really considered how stressful a book launch could be until I read a blog post [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read an interesting article lately that really made me think. It was by Sweta Vikram and was titled, “How Mindfulness Can Help You Enjoy Your Book Release [...]
by Joel D. Canfield, @JoelDCanfield To begin, tell me a little bit about yourself. How many of these have you experienced in your writing life during the past two years? I’ll include checkboxes [...]
by Nicky Blue, @itsnickyblue ‘The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.’ — Sigmund Freud When I [...]
by James Mullen Turner Field in Atlanta, June 1995, I scribbled a note on my knee just before the first pitch: Mike Deveraux, former legendary Braves player, is sitting behind us. The man [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes I go through patches where I feel as though I can barely catch my breath. I’ll be wrapping up one book, trying to promote another, answering emails, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I think it’s really helpful to know your most productive time of the day. That way, you can arrange your calendar (if you have that luxury) to knock [...]
by Elizabeth Spann Craig, @elizabethscraig I read an interesting article recently, “What Setting Small Goals is Costing You,” from author and publisher Michael Hyatt. I think it interested me because it had such [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read an interesting article by writer Victoria Griffin called “Writing Gains are Made on Rep Days.” Griffin explains rep days for weightlifters: “For lifters, rep days mean [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I used to think that I was a fairly adept multitasker, as long as one of the tasks was something completely mindless (I could stir things in a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Book signings come in different shapes and sizes. Signing books after a conference panel is one thing. Signing them in a bookstore is something else. Signing them after [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy 2018! I’m never much of a fan of resolutions, but I do like making sure at the beginning of each year that I’m organized. With that in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I am a horrible sleeper, and I always have been. One of my earliest memories is of watching a backlit, analog clock for hours and hours waiting for [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the hardest things about writing is the sitting down and doing it. Usually, once you start, it gets a little easier from there. Building a habit [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve never officially been part of National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo: more about the event here. If you’re interested in signing up, here’s how). Wikipedia’s NaNoWriMo entry explains [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Writers sometimes joke that the worst question to get from readers (and one of the most common) is “where do you get your ideas from?” I recently read [...]
by Nancy Christie, @NChristie_OH When I was thinking about what topic to explore for this guest post, three words kept coming into my mind: “time to write.” Maybe it was because, overloaded with pre-publication marketing [...]
by Colleen M. Story, @Colleen_M_Story “Oh, I want to write today, but I just don’t have the time!” You’ve probably felt this way more than once. In fact, if you’re like many of [...]
If you venture out of your comfort zone and can’t find your way back, maybe it’s all good. by Garry Ryan, @GarryGarrettRya This story probably began in Singapore. I spent the last two [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I lurk in a lot of Facebook groups and while there are always writers who are pumped up about writing and promoting (yes, really, there are those writers!) [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was looking for a movie to watch and stumbled across “Paterson” on Amazon Prime Video (free to Prime customers). The description of the movie reads: Every day, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was reading through my Feedly RSS feeds (I work and curate links about a month behind in the feed reader) and I came across a post by [...]
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