Self-Editing: Word Choices
When your story matures from its fanciful, free-ranging, cheeky early drafts, it’s time to instill it with the discipline of self-editing. One important method to rein in your earlier wayward […]
When your story matures from its fanciful, free-ranging, cheeky early drafts, it’s time to instill it with the discipline of self-editing. One important method to rein in your earlier wayward […]
About 12 years ago, my youngest child started preschool, and suddenly, my brain became my own again. Well, it was my own for at least 2 hours a day, which […]
Being a Writer™ is probably the scariest thing many of us will ever do. When I received an e-mail to write an article for the JRW Newsletter, my initial reaction was […]
I love it when readers ask, “How long did it take you to write this book?” It never fails to make me laugh. Should I include the years I thought […]
Time is a precious resource. You need to guard your writing time. There are so many distractions in today’s world, and it is easy to let your planning, writing, and […]
When spring arrives, my writing discipline falters. After a lovely sluggish winter, when there’s nothing to do but write, the waking garden calls me. I want to spend my spare […]
I’ve been on the writer’s side of magazines for years, starting a thousand years ago (the late ‘80s) as staff writer at SELF magazine in New York. There, I worked […]
National Novel Writing Month, often affectionately referred to as NaNoWriMo, is an annual event that challenges writers to complete a 50,000-word novel in just 30 days during the month of […]
There are gobs of blogs out there loaded with advice about how to squeeze in writing time. Most of it is word-based, albeit somewhat helpful, advice. Get up earlier and […]
When Catie-Reagan emailed to ask if I would write an article for the Members Only Newsletter, I read the email twice. My first thought was, “Me? What in the world […]