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What's your motive?

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What's your motive?

What is the driving factor that motivates you to write a story? WHY do you want to do it?

This why should be at the core of your writing. When you’re feeling aimless, hopeless, or you’ve had one too many negative critiques from your writing group, return to your motive.

Right now, you might be thinking: Okay, great. But what in the ham sandwich is a writing motive? 

Give yourself the energy to write

Give yourself the energy to write

Writing takes energy. Sometimes, just putting fingers to keyboard feels like the most momentous task in the world. How can you find that energy? I learned a lesson from my time in Japan that has helped energize me for writing...

Visualizing Your Dream House: Prepping to write your outline

Visualizing Your Dream House: Prepping to write your outline

When you build a house, you have a good idea of the outcome before you begin.

You’ve decided on a style; you know what features you want your home to include; you’ve drawn up a blueprint that you’ll utilize as a construction guide.

THE SAME PRINCIPLES CAN BE APPLIED TO YOUR WRITING PROJECT.

Before you write your first word on your first page, it’s a good idea to have some kind of roadmap to guide you through your writing. Sure, you can wing it, but your end result might look as higgledy-piggledy as someone who bought a bunch of 2X4s and started nailing them together without any idea of what they were building...

What song do you sing? (Developing Your Writing Voice)

What song do you sing? (Developing Your Writing Voice)

Your writing voice is the unique language that makes your writing yours. It’s what sets your zombie story or memoir or romance novel apart from all the others. It’s the humor/wit/sarcasm/intellect that defines you as a writer. If you’ve ever read something by Toni Morrison or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you know how alluring a writer’s voice can be. If you’ve ever read David Sedaris or Tina Fey, you understand how a writer’s voice can be laugh-out-loud funny.

So, here's the big question: How, exactly, DO you develop your writing voice?

Ghost writing: Learning to love the shadows

Ghost writing: Learning to love the shadows

Ghost writers get very little public credit.

As a ghost writer, you can't have a big ego. You can't point to your hundreds of blog posts (I lost count after 500), newsletters, eBooks, and website copy and scream at the world, "Hey everybody! Look! That's mine!" It just doesn't work that way. If it did, you would just be a plain ol' writer, sans the ghost.

So, how does a ghost writer deal with so much misplaced credit?

Freelancers are their own I.T. department

Freelancers are their own I.T. department

It's great being a freelancer for a lot of reasons, BUT there are also a bunch of disadvantages people don't necessarily consider. How can you incur unexpected costs as a freelancer? Oh, let me count the ways! Let's start with the computer meltdown incident that made me wish I had the backing of an I.T. department (or at least a level-headed co-worked to talk me out of DIY-ing my problem!)

Being a "Yes Person" Isn't So Bad

Being a "Yes Person" Isn't So Bad

A yes person is someone who says yes, regardless of whether they have the skills, time, or inclination to do the task at hand. It is a person who boldly plows forward, like a pet troll on a leash, bumbling forward when its master tugs.

Is saying yes really that bad? I argue that it isn’t.

What I Learned from NOT Writing

What I Learned from NOT Writing

Sometimes life happens and finding time to write becomes challenging. This happened to me recently and I learned a few valuable lessons from NOT writing, such as how to overcome my writing dry spell. Read on!

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