To interact with this post on Friday, click here. We love to read. This is one of the reasons we grew up to become writers. We spent our summers in libraries and carried heavy tomes around with us to read …
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As writers, we may be called upon to write hard words, to step into the role of a prophet – one who has to proclaim uncomfortable truth, regardless of opposition. Prophets make people squirm. But prophets are essential. When something …
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To comment on this post on Friday, go to Seriously Write. Why do you write? Your answer determines all the rest. Most of us might respond that we don’t even know how we feel or think about a matter until …
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To interact with this post on Friday, click here to go to Seriously Write. All around us, authors are struggling. Sales plummet. Amazon removes book reviews for reasons never announced. We weary of the constant marketing and promotion allotted to …
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To interact with this post on Friday, go to Seriously Write. If you’re like me, your “To Be Read” (TBR) book pile is teetering with the fascinating work of other authors whose books merit our attention. We want to read …
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To interact with this post on Seriously Write, click HERE. The new challenges of the marketplace are altering the writing journey for every writer I know. When we began, most of us never knew that privacy laws, Amazon’s algorithms, and …
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To interact on Friday, please go to Seriously Write. Today I offer words of encouragement, but let me begin with a story. I started my first real novel in 1988, abandoned it quickly, and picked it back up to finish …
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To interact with this post at Seriously Write, click HERE. Dear writer, don’t despise your humble beginnings, whether these include your level of education, the size of your community, or the poor and simple family life from which you emerged. …
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To interact with this post, go to Seriously Write. If you’ve seen the motion picture Groundhog Day, you know that the main character, a pompous, arrogant, and recalcitrant newscaster, gets stuck in a time loop in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, at the …
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To interact with today’s post, go to SeriouslyWrite. Today everything we own is being loaded into a truck to be hauled away. Strong men with burly arms heave our earthly possessions out the front door, up a gangplank, and into …
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