Category: Writing

Is it time to change our definitions of “published”?

Criticism doesn’t have to hurt. Time and experience take care of a lot of it, but here are some thoughts about the process.

A watched inbox collects a lot of spam and not so many of those acceptances.

Readers have changed, so writing has changed to adapt to the reader. I’m not sure how I feel about this.

I’m not a poet, and I know it. It doesn’t stop me from trying, kind of like singing.

They can’t all be winners, at least not the first time. Or the fortieth, for some.

It’s a strategy that works for me. If you’re not a multitasker, you may not want to try it.

Fiction writers struggle sometimes with what people and places are called. Here are a few tricks I use to speed up the process.

New ideas are fragile. Be careful with them.

Some days you don’t feel like an author. Maybe you’re not one, or maybe your definition is too narrow.

How can I be expected to write when my winter and summer wardrobes have not been sorted, and there are dishes in the sink?

Take all advice, including this article, with a grain of salt.