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Taking Your Writerly Self Seriously

Writing is a funny thing, in’it? Remember writing that first draft of your first-ever book, when you thought, “Man, they are gonna eat this up”?

Video Series: CANCELLED

DIY showbiz is just about as difficult as the real thing. It’s so nasty that sometimes you have to cancel your own program!

A Stranger in a Stranger Sequel

Mystery writers have it easy – this person killed that one for this reason, and this person figured it out. But telling a stranger in a strange land kind of story, that’s a different fish.

Working to Get an A

After a certain age, you wouldn’t think grades would matter much. But, son of a biscuit, it sure would be nice to get an A, wouldn’t it?

Starry-Eyed Whoopdidoos

You just can’t get past marketing, can you? If you’re a writer, you gotta figure out how that goes.

You Can Guess the Rules

The game of “Why did you do it that way?” has no winners.

Icing but no Cake

Well, the deed is done: the book is read, the review of that single most important reader of all is in my hot little hands. Drat.

The Elevator Pitch

You’re a writer – you know how it goes. You work and work and pour your heart and adenoids into your project. And then someone asks “What’s it about?”

Trying to Write a Sequel

Founding a dynasty is a plenty robust task. But how can you become a world-famous writer on only one book? Sequels, my friend. It’s all about the sequels.

Acting Like a Writer

You’re a writer – you know how it goes. You work, work, work, and write and create and think and write and… wait a second, does that mean you ARE a writer?