What is the cost of free information?

I love to write. It is, according to what my mother once said, my addiction. I actually get jittery, like a deprived caffeine addict, if I go too long without being able to write something. Because of this love for the stringing together of words I made the choice years ago to pursue a career [...]

Writing Course: Lesson 3

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I picked up lessons one and two quickly from memory of having taken them two years ago, so have advanced to lesson three of the How to Think Sideways course for this week.

I will still be building on the skills learned (and relearned) in lesson two as [...]

Midlife Crisis of a Writer

So, midlife crisis strikes and most people will go out and buy a sports car, or quit their job, or maybe get divorced. Me? I’m three days shy of the big four-oh and have come to the determination that I have to stop letting external influences sidetrack my dreams of being an author.

My mom [...]

Writing Depression

I have been suffering from a persistent funk that has left me uninterested in actually writing during the day. It has been miserably pitiful and seemed like an unending cycle that I was stuck in.

Sort of a writing depression I guess you could call it. I wanted to write, I really did, but I [...]

Co-Writing A Novel Can Be Stressful

I just want to scream! Arrrrgh!! Okay, so, I am working on this novel with one of my very best friends, right? Two of us have been at it for a while now, hashing out the world and getting the characters sorted out, even writing a LOT (and rewriting it and rewriting it……)… so anyway, [...]