I started writing when I had an infant, a two-year-old, and a preschooler. I wrote throughout their school years, their teen years, their college/adult years, and now full circle when I am babysitting grandkids. The (survival) skills you need to both write and parent change with each stage of your children’s lives. (Sometimes your […]
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Key #1: Have a Reason to Write
[First read Part 1 of the series called “Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun.”] The first key that Susan K. Perry mentions in Writing in Flow is this: have a reason to write. I’m going to break this into two parts. First: The Reason to Write in Flow For me, the reason to write […]
Writing in Flow to Make Writing Fun
One of my writing goals for 2015 is learning how to recapture the “fun” of writing. I love having a writing career and being published, but sometimes I long for the days when it was more enjoyable to write. I remember the days of getting into my fiction simply because I loved the character and I […]
Round 'Em Up!
I haven’t done a round-up of “best writing articles on the web” in a long time. So, with that in mind, here’s what I’ve been reading lately. I think you’ll find these four articles helpful too. In The Seven Stages of Creativity: A New Perspective on Writing a Book, I discovered that I didn’t actually understand […]
Cures for Procrastinators in One Minute Flat
Why is getting started often the hardest problem that writers face? Today, I piddled around with journaling, reading blogs, watering flowers, some marketing…all the while “getting ready” to write. But by noon, I hadn’t written Word One. There was no real reason for me to be unfocused. I felt fine, ate a healthy breakfast, had […]
Five Stages of Procrastination
How is procrastination like a bridge you set on fire yourself? According to Neil Fiore in The Now Habit, it’s similar to a situation where we scare ourselves into being frozen. Fiore says to imagine a very long flat board on the ground in front of you, and then imagine walking on it to the […]