10 Writing Tips in 5 Days: Day 5 – No More Excuses

Tip #10: Get Back to Work The word procrastination brings to mind Big Bang Theory reruns and Facebook updates and online shopping and suddenly needing to reorganize the spice cabinet. But these are just the gumballs in a whole candy store of procrastination techniques. Procrastination can be anything. Anything that keeps you from writing whatContinue reading “10 Writing Tips in 5 Days: Day 5 – No More Excuses”

10 Writing Tips in 5 Days: Day 4 – The Reluctant Reviser

Your story, poem, novel chapter, or query letter is not good enough. You know this either because it’s been rejected three times or because a critique group gave you negative feedback, or because you just know, in your gut. Even so, you’re having trouble finding the motivation to revise. These are your words, and youContinue reading “10 Writing Tips in 5 Days: Day 4 – The Reluctant Reviser”

10 Writing Tips in 5 Days: Day 3 – Get Yourselves Organized!

The title of today’s post comes from one of my favorite moments in… [If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and watch this two-minute clip on YouTube. If you like stop motion animation or motorcycle sidecar humor or sheep, you won’t be disappointed.] To be writers, we must be creative, imaginative, artistic, andContinue reading “10 Writing Tips in 5 Days: Day 3 – Get Yourselves Organized!”