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 [...]
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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 [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There are times when I’m completely prepared to admit that I’m a writer. These are usually social situations or parent meetings where small-talk entails being asked what one [...]
By Selina Siak Chin Yoke, @SiakChinYoke With the publication of my debut novel, The Woman who Breathed Two Worlds, by Amazon Crossing in 2016, I achieved a long-cherished dream. And when the book [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Routines are wonderful–until they’re not. I’m a very routine-driven writer. Actually, I’m routine-driven, period. I’m a lot more productive when I can keep my malfunctioning brain out of [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @Elizabethscraig When I hit rough patches (and I do nearly every book), I keep going without feeling blocked. That’s because I’ve done it before. Every couple of books I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the last post of the time saving series. You can find the first post here (on social media), post two here (on saving time writing), and the third [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been to a variety of different conferences over the years and tried to get the most out of each experience. Sometimes I had a better time than [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I rely on a lot of time savers to help me stay productive. I’ve spoken to writers before who’ve asked me how long I spend writing each day. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes I think that we need something to spur us on and get us going. We need something different to help us either grow or keep ourselves engaged. [...]
by David Wogahn, @wogahn Self-publishing is a humbling experience. When I started, I was in fear of my work being ripped off, good friends didn’t review my book, blog readers and subscribers didn’t [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Just a year or two ago, I had so much that I was trying to multi-task that I got easily overwhelmed. What’s more, I felt really scattered. There were [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s Halloween, the perfect time to mull over fear. I read a lot of really scary stuff online. None of it has to do with monsters, either. There [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Parenting and writing. It can be a challenging combination … or can it? A lot depends on the child/teen in question, the parent’s schedule and non-child stressors, and [...]
by Nina Amir, @NinaAmir Publishing is all business. You have to deal with business plans or proposals, contracts, negotiations, promotion, platform, a publishing company—someone else’s or your own, marketability, taxes, and, of course, [...]
by Roland Yeomans, @rxena77 Isn’t Elizabeth brave and gracious to let me borrow her blog for the day? Give her a hand by commenting at the end of this post, will you? “I [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin In some ways it’s easy to write a series. You already have a frame in which to sketch your story. Usually, that means you have a general location or [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Whenever I talk to anyone about my writing, the question usually comes up: would I like to try writing anything other than mystery? Then I explain that I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Usually I think of summer as a lazier time when I can leisurely get peripheral writing-related chores completed. I’d put all kinds of things on my calendar to do this [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I mentioned in April that I was trying a new approach to my free time. I actually had very little free time and found that the little time I did [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Out of all the different things I’ve done to make my writing better, practice has benefitted me most outside of pure reading. I’ve taken classes, I’ve read craft [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was so happy at finishing my most recent book on Thursday that my sigh of relief might have been heard miles away. This book was the sixth book in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the ways I motivate myself to the treadmill every other day is to listen to podcasts while I walk. These range from strictly writing-related podcasts to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve had a very tough time finding time to just relax the past few years. Part of the problem is that, when [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve become something of a Google calendar fanatic. I’ve completely outsourced my memory to it and have it open much of the day on my laptop and phone. I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For years I’ve had the attitude that I was best connecting with readers through my stories. I still feel like that’s true. They’re getting a glimpse inside my [...]
by Colleen M. Story, @colleen_m_story I was working too many hours a day. I knew it, but I had deadlines to meet. As a full-time freelance writer, it’s not like I could tell my [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The prevailing advice for better sales seems to be to write faster. I think this may be true. I did find that my self-published sales really picked up [...]
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