I don’t need to tell you that the book publishing marketplace is all sorts of wacky at this moment in history. It seems a new change is revealed every other day or so. When your focus is on creative work, it can really throw you for a loop to have a distribution method or a […]
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Own Your Writing Career: Take Advantage of Excitement!
How do you decide what to write next after you finish a book? It is possible that when you finish writing a book your mind doesn’t go instantly to the next one you’ll write, and that’s fine, too. We all have our own degrees of writer crazy. Mine happens to be particularly amped up at […]
Own Your Writing Career: Don’t Worry about Being Wronged — Just Write
I want to bring this up because it is my fervent hope that you’ll find your path to productivity, and joy, in your writing. A focus on the wrong aspects of work/life/ or whatever can keep you from that productivity. I’ve seen this come up with writers in multiple ways, and I’ll mention a few […]
Own Your Writing Career: Eyes on the Prize — What Is the Prize, for You?
As you progress as a writer, you’ll notice the payoffs that are considered important in popular culture for writers. Of course you’ll notice them! You’re one of those pop culture, conventional wisdom suckers, too! (We all are until we investigate further. That’s why it’s called conventional wisdom.) What are these culturally promoted payoffs of being […]
Own Your Writing Career: Always Looking Forward
In my last post I talked about planning, and a little about what works for me. Along with a clear plan, that includes a structured schedule for writing/editing/publication, and goals for six months, one year out, and five years out, as a writer setting out on this journey, you must adapt to a spirit of […]
Own Your Writing Career (Don’t Let It Own You)
Writers, if you need a little lifting up, to know you’re not alone, or just to feel more in control of your writing life, this is the blog series for you. I’m a very small fry in the independent publishing river. I published my first book in August 2011 (and lurked for ages before that), […]
Mid-Week Update: Stalling Tactics
I’ve been avoiding my major writing project for more than a week now. Shield is two-thirds written, and it’s pretty typical of me to get stuck about here. So wish me courage and a little get-up-and-go on that one. 🙂 Does that mean I haven’t been writing? lol. No! I’ve been writing plenty. I’ve started […]
Sunday Update: Good Writing Week!
I was on vacation last week, and it shows in my word count. 🙂 Monday through Wednesday I was at a little cabin up in the woods with my two daughters and our dog (poor hubby had to work. Like LOTS of work.). The girls and I hiked, had movie night, and just played around. […]
Sunday Update: Chaos Calling Released Yesterday!
My first goal for the spring was to publish the second novel in my Foulweather Twins fantasy series. DONE! Chaos Calling is out now. One more book to go in the series. I’ve also thought of a possible spin-off series, but I’m not committed to it at this point. Fun choices for a writer — […]
Sunday Update: Nearly There! (On One More Book)
Writing goals are so funny. My husband stopped trying to keep track of the stages of all my projects long ago….not for a reason of disinterest, but because there are so many STEPS to completing a book. When I cheer “I’m DONE!” or “Finished!” he assumes I’m about to hit the publish button….but it’s usually […]
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