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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To engage with this post on Seriously Write, click HERE: We all have them. Wild times. There are times when our worlds come crashing down around us, when everything falls apart and calamities multiply. Beloved family members need care, someone …
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This post appears today on Seriously Write. To interact there, click HERE. When I attended my first writers’ conference, I learned that authors who wanted to publish were expected to have a blog. That trend had begun years earlier with …
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