Tag: writing
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I’m proud of my development as a writer.
That’s a good feeling, and one I forget a lot. I think that’s an artist thing, too — or maybe a writer thing. Forgetting to be proud of your accomplishments. […]
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The belly dance/writing crossover.
I talked about artists’ brains in a previous post, and how it seems like we can’t stick to just one medium. I didn’t get too many comments here, but when […]
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Hard lessons in writing: Once you finish, do it again.
I mean, of course, that deja-vu insanity, editing. As a novelist, you’ve got to not only write the whole book, but then you have to sit down and read it […]
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Hard lessons in writing: English is bizarre.
The very first thing I started working on as a baby writer was grammar. That and spelling. As a thirteen-year-old with a typewriter, I thought that the most important thing […]
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Marketability.
I was at a craft fair peddling my books yesterday, and the woman at the booth beside me told me she and her girlfriend are writing a children’s book. She […]
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Artist’s brains.
Stop me if I’m wrong here, but I noticed something funny about artists a while back, and many of my artist friends have agreed. I’ve never met an artist who […]
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Self-published crap.
I’ve picked up a handful of self-published books over the years, not many, and I have to say, I have noticed a distinct lack of polish in the writing in […]
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I make faces while writing.
I once got a piece of advice from a writing coach: “You have to write it like it was when you were there.” I love this. It embodies for me […]
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Deliberate flubbing.
When you’re writing fiction, you have to make the same grammatical mistakes that your characters would make. As in, the same mistakes that human beings make when they’re talking. When […]
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Goals.
One of my friends at work keeps telling me I won’t be working at that job next year. She means that she thinks I will be successful with my books, […]
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