My mother is a wonderful artist. She paints in acryllics and oils and I think she is just brilliantly talented. Over the years she’s produced many, many beautiful things. She’s sold a lot of her work, but she’s never really broken out and made her painting more than a hobby. She’s never taken her art […]
Does It Need To Be Fun?
December 8, 2011 by
The original title of this post was “It Should Be Fun”. I was planning on talking about how writing needs to be enjoyable. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that wasn’t quite what I believe. It’s not that writing shouldn’t be fun. It’s that “fun” is too weak a word […]
Where To Put The Desk
November 29, 2011 by
Over the last couple of days, I found myself embroiled in a writer’s biggest challenge. No, it wasn’t sentence structure or plot or writing a query letter. I was trying to decide where to put my desk. Yes, I have a desk, and I’ve been using it. But I think I got it in my […]
Finishing What You Start
November 16, 2011 by
Perspective
November 6, 2011 by
Sometimes I get hung up in the minutia of day-to-day living. The work I do at my day job. Whether I’m writing. Whether I’m not writing. Whether I’m working towards my goals. Whether I’m not working towards my goals. Whether I just want to say I have goals, but I don’t really want to work […]
What Kind of Writing?
October 25, 2011 by
So let’s say that you’ve decided to be a writer. Great! Go you! But how do you figure out what KIND of writing you want to do? By the way, I’m talking about writing here because that’s my experience. But I think this same issue crops up in all creative endeavors. How do you decide […]
