Tag: Writer
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C is for Commitment
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Commitment. How many relationships have ended because one person wasn’t willing to commit as deeply as the other? This is a big deal. You have a wonderful idea. You think it’s awesome. But the work involved in making it come to life is daunting. It’s okay to feel that…
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B is for Beauty
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Beauty. It sounds shallow, but just stop and think about it for a moment. Something attracted you to that person. Was it their hair? Their eyes? The smile? Their incredible ass? The swagger? Their nose? Their sense of humor? Something of that person who you chose to involve yourself…
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A is for Amore
Why Writing is Like a Relationship Ah, Amore. Love. It’s the first thing that you have to have to make a relationship work. It also helps a lot when you’re working on a manuscript. There are different levels of love in a relationship: just friends, best friends, lovers, marriage partner, crime partner, your pet goldfish,…
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Writing Mom
There’s a problem with being a writer, with a family, and no way to generate an office that is an inviolate personal space. Namely, visions of being an axe-murderer flit through your head. I have 6 year old twins. I have a husband. I have a desk wedged behind a couch in the T.V. room,…
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How to Accept Critique
You may want to read up on How To Be A Good Critiquer before reading this. It may help with my perspective on things. No, no. Take your time. I can wait. Done? Awesome. I seem to keep running into the wrong kind of person as a crit partner. They freely tell me everything they…
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An Interesting and Frightening Development
This is more a post about my personal thoughts on the matter as opposed to the facts of the case, just so you’re aware. As you may remember (or not) I posted somewhere… *rummage, rustle* Oh, ew… I thought I threw that out. *paper flipping* Ah, here we go. Yes, right here I posted my…
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