All too often I manage to overwhelm myself with projects. Concepts for new and interesting work roll constantly through my mind. I add more and more items to my To-Do list, crowding out the voice of inspiration for my current work, until I just want to lay everything down and walk away for a while. […]
Month: March 2014
Third Wednesday: The Vile Contents of the Vial
Today let’s look at two words spellcheck can’t fix for you. And if they creep past your editor and proofreader, you end up with a preventable typo in your book. Here’s a paraphrase of the sentence I read in a novel: “The vial owner of the bar turned a blind eye to the two guys […]
Believing
Sometimes it’s so hard to believe in ourselves, in our talents, in our ability to be successful. Self-doubt creeps in during those dark nights when sleep won’t come. We lie awake pondering the long distance between where we see ourselves in our journey to reach our goals, and where we think we should be. We […]
The Courage to Throw It All Out – And to Start Again
Have you ever had one of those days, weeks, or months when nothing you write seems to work? Have you ever been stuck on one sentence, one paragraph, or one or more chapters that go nowhere? Maybe your agent or editor has called your attention to uneven passages in your manuscript and asked you to […]