It's been debated who first coined the phrase, but since at least the early part of the twentieth century, 'Kill your darlings' has been considered good writing advice. The idea is that you should delete those bits of prose you are most particularly fond or proud of,...
It's been a little while, so I thought I'd check in and tell you what I've been doing and learning. I jumped back into a few writers groups, only this time they are online. I was a member of a couple local groups during my first year of working on the novel, and they w...
Last night I had one of those dreams where you figure out its a dream halfway through, and it totally ticks you off. In the dream, I got an email from a literary agent telling me how much they liked my book pitch and then asking me to send them a full copy of the manus...
I read that visualization was an important key to attaining one's goals... so over lunch I passed a Barnes and Noble and decided to employ this technique. I'll let you know if it turns out to be effective.
The link below is to an article I read the very first week I embarked on this writing journey over two years ago now. I read it three times in fact, and then for some crazy reason I wrote a book anyway! Well, I decided to read it again, and, even now, it fails to dissu...
So I'm one week away from a three-week webinar I've signed up for called "Opening Pages That Lead to Yes". It's being put on by the Nelson Literary Agency, founded by one Kristin Nelson (who by the way I would absolutely LOVE to have representing me and my book). The f...
Today I was relieved to discover my taste buds could once again properly process the flavor of coffee and report to my brain a sense of gustatory satisfaction.
For the past four+ days I've had a whopper of a cold, but being hopelessly addicted to C8H10N4O2, I still requ...
