Writing – Page 9 – John D Reinhart

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.

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?

Chipping Away at Perfection

Yvon Chouinard, the mastermind behind the Patagonia clothing company, used to quote somebody even more famous, but I forget who. I don’t suppose that’s the point…