Patience. Patience. Patience. That one word sends shivers down my spine. I thought that I was patient, but it turns out that as a writer there is a different species of patience I must deal with. Most call them queries but, by the growling sounds they make, the long and drawn out crawls in the…… Continue reading Patience and Writing…….
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Ella Rose and The Outline!
She huffed in frustration as she sat at her desk behind the smartest kid in her class. He seemed to be able to do everything that their teacher assigned them to do. Today was all about outlining one’s thoughts before writing. Outlines, she thought, the worst thing to ever happen to a story. They…… Continue reading Ella Rose and The Outline!
Pain and Writing
Have you ever written something that made you hurt? Have you ever written something that made you angry? I know I have. In fact, I’m doing that now. The story I’m working on right now has subject matter that is painful to write. More than once I have put it down and turned to studying…… Continue reading Pain and Writing
To Be Inspired
A part of being a writer is being inspired. Naturally there is always someone or something that catches one’s heart and inspiration is born. It could be anything really. A blue bird out on a sunny spring day or even a teacher that pushed and pushed until success was found. Usually though a writer’s…… Continue reading To Be Inspired
A Purpose
As a writer I don’t simply write stories because I can. Instead I write for a reason, I have a purpose to my craft. There’s been times I’ll be reading something and I have to put it down because there was no feeling to it, there was no soul. When reading something so lifeless I…… Continue reading A Purpose
To Becoming a Writer 