Category: Writing Life

Can you guess what it is? What is your biggest complaint as an author? Is it the piddly sales? Maybe for a few of you but for most of us the money isn’t the reason we write, is it? Is it sitting for hours while you pour your heart out onto the pages? Not likely.… Continue reading My Best Writing Tool Can’t Even Access the Internet

Do writers really use planners? Yes, some of us do. Some writers like to create their stories and books by the seat of their pants (they are appropriately called “pantsers”) but for many writers of both fiction and non-fiction, not knowing what they are going to write, who their characters are, and what order events… Continue reading The Writer’s Planner

When I was just an interviewer at a market research company and I got promoted to supervisor, I heard my co-workers whisper, “She’s so lucky!” And throughout the next 6 years when I was promoted 5 more times I heard the same thing. When the office I worked in closed down and I was offered… Continue reading Don’t Call Me Lucky