What do I mean by that? Simple. Nobody cares that we wrote a thing, that we created art out of twenty-six measly letters, that we made a world out of weird little markings on a page. Our family and close friends may care, (and let’s be honest, that’s a big may) but the rest of […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for the site. I’ve been busy editing and publishing my second book (The Things Friends Hide, pardon the plug) and let me tell you, it wore me out. When you’re a writer and you have a full-time job (parenting included!), something has to give. In this case
I’m not telling you this as a bid for pity (or as a prod for you to go out and buy my book but if you did, that’d be totally ok), I’m telling you this because it’s real. And that’s what my website is about: to give first hand insight into the struggle to become
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Evil? you think. Aren’t you being a bit dramatic? you think. At least, I think that’s what you’re thinking. It’s what I would have thought before going through the editing process myself. Maybe I am being dramatic. Maybe not. If you’re writing to get published, you’ll find out. I say evil because editing hurts. It
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. -Anne Lamott If you want to be a writer you must write. Something, anything. Start your short story with something as cliche as once upon a time or start your mystery novel with it was a dark and stormy night but
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We all need help once in a while. Some of us more than others (yes, I mean me). Below are some tools I rely on to the point of I can’t sit down to write unless they’re with arms reach: A Writer’s Reference by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-writers-reference-diana-hacker/1127607270?ean=9781319057442 This book is a little
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The reason I’ve set up a website, that I’m torturing you with my blathering in this blog (and blogs to come), is the question above. I’ve always had a passion for the written word, I was the only kid I knew that got in trouble in school for reading too much, wanting to be a
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