How many rejections does it take for you to give up? Ten? Twenty? Forty? Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel The Help, didn’t give up after even sixty rejections: “The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being …
A friend and I have decided to read Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose: A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love so that the next time we meet for coffee, we can discuss it (and our mutual experience of feeling scattered at a time in our lives when it seems we should be more …
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 …