Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
I once wrote a post called Get Mad: Marketing from Your Dark Side. I’ve mentioned it before briefly in the context of Terry Pratchett’s passing, but I’d like to come back to it again because I recently read two blog posts that touched on how artists…
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Short and Sweet Advice for Writers – Write Like a Puppy
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Writing is serious business. Doing it well requires study, commitment, and dedication. There is a lot to learn – form, structure, style, voice – more craft nuances than I can name. “Real” writers sacrifice for their art. As Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. All…
Writing prompt for the day
The only thing I remember from third grade is reading Charlotte’s Web and my teacher saying, “The first sentence of a book is the most important. It is what grabs the reader’s attention.” Mrs. Abbey, thank you. Your lesson left me with a life-long love of novels’ first sentences. I always give a book a … Continue reading
Confession
I haven’t worked on my book in over a week. I haven’t even touched the daily writing prompts in that same amount of time. Simply put, I got cold feet. A friend of my parents’, who is a published author, has so kindly taken me under his wing and gives advice whenever I ask. Last … Continue reading
Grammar-ease: Using ‘and’ and ‘to’
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Here is a grammar refresher on using and and to. I see it all the time, and although it’s more a choice between casual and formal use than right and wrong, I thought it was worth writing about. Here’s what I’m referring to: Be sure and visit the robotic…
My favorite writing resources
I love lists. Organizing, charts, tips, tricks, you name it. College was filled with planners, online calendars, whiteboards in my room that detailed every day. It’s only natural my writing would go down the same path. Why is why, as I mentioned in this post, I’ve created a Pinterest board to help keep my novel … Continue reading
Make it about yourself: 15 reasons why I write
It doesn’t matter if you work for a newspaper, create poems nobody will ever see or do something tedious like grant writing (I’ve actually got no clue if that’s tedious or not but it sounds like it). If you write, you’re a writer. We each have many different reasons that fuel us to write but I … Continue reading
