Advocating for Yourself as a Writer
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. The actors’ union has now joined the screenwriters’ union in striking against the Hollywood studios, and, kids,…
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The Right Way to Use Social Media for Authors
How to determine how much social media might work for you and my career, without tipping over into where it’s negatively affecting your creative time, attention, or well-being.
How Writers Revise: Joni B. Cole and Toxic Feedback
Author, educator, and editor Joni B. Cole knows a little something about feedback—the good and bad kind. When she was a fledgling writer in a graduate program, one of her professors wrote on a short story she had worked and reworked extensively simply, “It’s all wrong.”
How to Write a Good First Draft
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F*** the Cat
The salty little title of this post came from a conversation I had with an author I was working with who was citing all the many excellent theories she had…