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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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