This spring, feeling the repetitive wear of two-decades of freelance work and novel-writing from my kitchen, I went back to “work” — the kind where you drive to an office, wear a corporate ID badge and
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Six years into my journey as a “published YA author,” I have accomplished the following: BOOK-WISE Published a “quiet” debut novel, AUDITION, 2011. Worked myself to the bone blog-touring, live-touring and otherwise promoting AUDITION. Paid my
The kids are on vacation. The relatives are coming to visit. And you’re not really feeling yourself–between the wrapping and the baking and toilet-scrubbing, you’re not writing enough. Take heart, my beleaguered writer friends! Remember that
There’s no single path to writing success, any more than there is a single definition of writing success (or success in any form). Careers in writing are tricky. And, journalism and fiction writing are two completely
Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? For those of you not in the “know” (heehee!), this is short form for National Novel Writing Month, wherein you attempt to write a complete novel in 30 days. “Can that
Disclaimer: I have been a huge Barbara Dee fan since reading SOLVING ZOE (smart girl + theater geekery + puzzles + mystery = GoReadIt!) six years ago. Since then, I’ve discovered that Barbara is not only
Writing is a lonely business. A butt-in-seat, fingers-on-keyboard, tuning-out-the-world lifestyle filled with rejection and uncertainty. So, despite often being viewed as an occupation for introverts, the fact is that writers need community, perhaps more than most.
Between client deadlines and self-imposed manuscript word count minimums, I could literally spend all of my waking life typing into a keyboard. But I don’t. Sometimes, I step away to do a bit of yoga or,
I haven’t been writing as much as I should these last couple of months but I have the best of reasons: I’ve been reading, play-going, traveling, celebrating and generally refilling the well from which I draw
There are many types of developmental work authors find helpful as they write their manuscripts. As fall approaches (and perhaps you get excited about all the free writing time you’ll have once the kids are back