Making my hour-long commute home today in taught me a couple of things. The first and possibly most important is that it would be nice to have a working air conditioner in my car. Sure the weather has been great here lately (by “great” I mean dark, rainy, and dreary) but we all know what […]
Five Ways to Step Outside of Your Writing Comfort Zone
By nature, we seek out our comfort zones. We’ll try new things for a while, but as soon as something “works” and we get comfortable doing it, we run the risk of stagnating. This unfortunately affects us in so many ways. In exercise, in diet, in the day job, in finances. And even in writing. […]
Three reasons writers should use Pinterest
Pinterest has a weird reputation. To some people, it’s a pointless photo-sharing app for people with nothing better to do to use for posting pictures of their food. To others, it’s a way to network, learn, or even make a living. For writers, it’s a great tool we should all be using. Now, when I […]
Five Links Friday 4/7/17
It’s time again for Five Links Friday. Finally starting to figure out a new routine as we calibrate our lives with the new baby, but so far all is going pretty well. Enjoy the weekend and do some reading–starting right here… 1. This article on shows that J.K. Rowling’s Latest Advice For Budding Authors Will […]
When ghosts were real and Nessie still swam in the Loch
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to stuff that terrifies me, especially if it’s from the area of the unexplained, paranormal, or supernatural. I fondly remember the second grade when a classmate snuck a book from the high school section of our school’s library that retold all sorts of “true” ghost […]
Five Links Friday the 13th 1/13/17
As is my tradition here at the site, I like to do a special horror-related line-up on of Five Links if the day falls on a Friday the 13th. So here we are. Enjoy! 1. Originally for Halloween, but suitable here as well, here are 31 Horrifying Writing Prompts to Help You Scare the Bejesus […]
Write What You Know. (But what do you know?)
If there’s one saying that is repeated to new writers even more than Show, Don’t Tell, it’s got to be “Write what you know.” I had a college poetry professor that like the phrase so much he made us recite it every day as class begun. What’s kind of funny is that after all these […]
Five Clutter-Free Gifts For Writers
Every year around now, we start seeing posts on gift ideas for whatever the topic of the blog you’re reading. “25 gift ideas for a handyman.” “25 gift ideas for elementary teachers” “25 gift ideas for a librarian”. You get the point. Since I visit a lot of writing sites, I see tons of these […]