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It’s not too early to start thinking about your summer, your writing summer, that is. What do you want to write before the leaves turn color in the fall? What do you want to start? To finish? This weekend I got some inspiration from a recent article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Angela Wu’s piece …
Is your writing stuck? Mine has been recently. Oh, I’m still writing, thank goodness, and on a daily basis, but much of what I write feels as lifeless as last fall’s leaves that have been uncovered recently by the melting snow. The words just lie there, soggy, crushed, faded, leftover from another season. When this …
This post is for a good friend and writing buddy who first introduced me to the incredible writing blog of Alexandra Sokoloff. I recently bought Sokoloff’s Kindle edition of Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!), which I highly recommend. Although most of the information in the book is available on her blog, having it all …
It’s Bookmarkable Friday Saturday! As someone who does creative work, how do you handle inevitable periods of dejection? Write your way through it? Ignore it until it goes away? Re-visit your goals? Focus on gratitude? Sit with the feeling in a mindful way? Take some planned time off (different from giving up in exasperation)? Seek …
I am honored today to feature an interview with Kelsey Ketch, whose historical young adult novel Death’s Island is represented by Bree Ogden of Martin Literary Management. Kelsey is as generous as she is talented, and I know that her commitment to a writing life will inspire others to finish—or start—whatever work of passion is knocking at your heart’s door.