Tag Archive | Writing Life
NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2018 Challenges on the Go Dog Go Cafe
Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café:
For National Poetry Month in 2003, American poet Maureen Thorson pledged on her blog to write a poem a day for the month of April and invited other poets with blogs to join her. Thorson continues to sponsor this annual project and the amount of participating poets continues…
Publishing My First Novel, Using CreateSpace
Originally posted on Lisa Morrow Official Author Page:
Publishing a novel really does take an entire team, or a writer willing to learn a lot of new skills. Recently, I published my first novel (it’s available for pre-order): To Kill a Wizard, through Amazon. Even though I’m definitely not an expert, I thought others might…
Dellani’s Alphabet Challenge Letter B – Bad Fall – An Excerpt
Originally posted on writemindsauthors:
Frank Atherton is the assistant director at a huge nursing facility in Ohio. He’s having a pretty bad week after a man named Ralph Penwarren arrives. The only good thing to happen all week is meeting Marka Ventimiglia, a new psychiatrist who’s just started working at the facility. They are immediately…
Weekend Edition – Time to Write Plus Good Reads and Writing Tips
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
On Making Time to Write in a Real Life I’d been having trouble with my computer. The machine, a beautiful MacBook Pro, is only a few years old; but something seemed to have snapped in its shiny, silver brain. No matter what task I set…
Weekend Edition – Why You Write Plus Writing Tips and Good Reads
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Why You Write Source: IBM: http://www-03.ibm.com/ Though perhaps I should spend less time questioning and more time simply doing, I have always had a fascination with why human beings create art and, in particular, why we write. When you spend as much time as we…
Learning from Failure
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Long-time readers of this blog know that I’ve spent the last three years researching, writing and rewriting Ellen, a novel. I showed it to my agent twice along the way, and knew she had reservations about the premise, main character, time period and tone. I…
Weekend Edition – Writers, Better with Age plus Good Reads and Writing Tips
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Writers, Like Fine Wines, Get Better with Age About a week ago, I picked up my first pair of reading glasses. I like being able to see more clearly, but cautious overcompensation to avoid a collision between the lenses of my glasses and the rim of…
Weekend Edition – The Dichotomy of You Plus Good Reads and Writing Tips
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
The Dichotomy of You – The Writer You are a complex animal. You are not only human (already a perplexing tangle of physical, emotional, and spiritual knots), you are also a writer. You are human complexity to a factor of ten – a bundle of…
Weekend Edition – Life Without Regrets plus Writing Tips and Good Reads
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Dan’s right. It is later than you think. Do you ever feel like the Universe is conspiring to send you a message? I do. All the time. This week, the theme was “Life is Short.” I began the week with a little getaway that was…
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