Should I quit? It's nearly midnight. There comes a time in all bloggers or writers' lives when quitting looks tempting. Tonight, this could be it for me.Are my blogging days over? Perhaps this …
Articulating Agony: The Writer as Antihero
“In literature, only trouble is interesting.” –Janet Burroway Among writing professionals there are certain “truths” about the writing life that are—more often than not—agreed upon. Fo… Visit LeeAnn …
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Kristen Lamb on writing her first novel
The long game is fiction As my readers know, I am also writing fiction. I have followed Kristin Lambs' blog for several years. Looking back at 2002 when she began the marathon of mastering novel …
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Freedom to feel alive
Travel changes POV The instant I'm in a car, on a plane or boarding a train to someplace new I become all eyes. That is an odd expression, all eyes. Imagine eyes all over my body? But "all eyes" …
5 poets to raise your courage
Great poetry raises my courageKahlil Gibran, born in Lebanon, was a poet, artist, philosophical essayist and a novelist,who emigrated to New York in 1885. His work, written both in Arabic and …
Synopsis: Summing up your story makes a difference by Andrea Lundgren
Readers like to know what they’re getting into before they start a book. They want to know if it’s a series, what genre, and what they can expect, overall, before they start reading (unless they trust …
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