Category: Writing Tips & Career Advice

Creativity Exercise: Take Your Characters Shopping

Characters are funny people for authors. We spend so much time with them, they often become real to us. However, the process of creating them, of determining their likes, dislikes,… Read more »

Can You Afford to Be Published?

Writers ask a lot of questions on the journey to publication. “Will I ever get an agent? Should I?” “Am I finished revising?” “Who is my audience for this book… Read more »

Nanowrimo: Should You Do It?

Nanowrimo time is upon us once again. It’s the time of year when writers and wannabe writers take on the challenge to write 50,000 words in a month. While it… Read more »

Literary Busking: A Side Hustle Doubles as Marketing

Recently I was exposed to a new (to me) phenomenon. Literary busking. If you’ve never heard the term, busking is when someone performs in public, hoping that passerby will voluntarily… Read more »

Become a Happy Writer (or at Least Happier)

Last week I wrote about why writers are seemingly never happy/satisfied with their careers. (If you missed it, the TLDR is that writing as a career does not have a… Read more »

Why Are Writers Never Happy?

Here’s a funny thing: Most writers I know (myself included) are never happy. Or maybe happy isn’t the right word. Satisfied is perhaps a better choice. Yet, since satisfaction often… Read more »

Writing Lessons Learned from Jigsaw Puzzles

A few years ago, I wrote a piece on the benefits of jigsaw puzzles and why you should add them to your entertainment repertoire. Now I realize that over the… Read more »

Summer Is the Time for… Writing?

It’s no secret that I don’t like summer. Before you call me names and accuse me of heresy, let me point out that, in all fairness, summer stopped liking me… Read more »