As I mentioned in my last blog, I’m a fan of author Kristen Lamb. She has done much to inform and motivate writers. Especially regarding how technology has shaped and influenced modern day writing and publishing trends. In a recent blog, she discusses Five Simple Ways to Finish a Book. A big complaint of mine, […]
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. —Ray Bradbury, WD (Warning: This diet is not for everyone. It’s only for those individuals who live to write.) As writers, more than we want to eat, sleep, or whatever, we […]
What I find most motivational during those dark hours of self-doubt is reading what other writers have to say. Summer invaded. Visitors. Camping trips. Family. And my writing went the way of dead spring flowers—faded, dismissed but never forgotten—praying for a rain endowed wind or a hungry bird to escort them to fertile fields. My […]