Follow the headlights. (This tip was copied from the Literary Hub) It doesn’t matter if you’re the kind of writer who plans meticulously: Give yourself …
Transformational Coaching
Details, Details, Details!
Details, Details, Details! “The devil is in the detail” is an idiom that refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the … earlier phrase, …
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~ Henry David Thoreau. Memoir or …
Writing – A Tool for Transformation
Writing is not just for those who consider themselves “writers.” It is just as much a transformational tool as it is a craft for creative …
Good Writing Habits Support Inspiration
First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain youwhether you’re inspired or not.Habit is persistence in practice.~ Octavia Butler Good Writing Habits Support Inspiration Inspiration …
Enjoy Being a Bad Writer
Enjoy Being a Bad Writer You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. If you accept bad writing as a way of priming …
Mindfulness and Writing
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn At times like we are in now, challenging, to say the least, we are given …
Characterization at Its Best
Characterization at Its Best Writers—the good ones anyway—are keen observers of human nature and they capture it in their characters and storytelling. They show the behaviors, …
When to Write
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ~Zig Ziglar Daniel Pink, the author of When: The …
10 Reasons to Write a Book
Why Do Writers Write? 10 Reasons to Write a Book Writing a book is not the most difficult thing you will ever do, but because it …