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Daily Digest: Creatively Adrift? Finding Your Spark Back to Writing

Daily Digest: Creatively Adrift? Finding Your Spark Back to Writing

When you feel creatively adrift. There comes a time when the flame that once fueled our stories begins to fade. The writing desire exists, but the creative energy feels distant, muffled. I call this the seasonal shift. Whether you are in the spring, summer, fall or winter of your writing life, the creative energy that propels your writing can diminish – even to the point of blockage. My thoughts of “I want to write” were coupled with “Why isn’t my…

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What Book Reviews Can Teach Us

What Book Reviews Can Teach Us

Hello all,  Happy Friday Authors can become obsessed by reviews, but there is more there than good or bad. Reviews give you a lot of insight to what the reader expects in a book. This morning, Amazon sent their latest book reads offer for $1.99. One book caught my attention, not to read, but I liked the cover, so I went to the product page to take a screen shot for my “cover ideas folder.” And, as always, I read…

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How to Beat the Writing Devils

How to Beat the Writing Devils

Happy Friday, Idleness is the writers devil. But we can’t write “all” the time, can we? Actually, it comes down to your definition of writing. In a previous note, I mentioned that writing alone is hard. Yes, we DO write alone, but without connections with other writers, we feel ALONE – then that little devil creeps in, lying to you: “You can’t do this? Why even bother? You don’t have the time.” If you have two minutes (like reading this…

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Writing Compost: Thinking Does Not ALWAYS Mean Procrastination

Writing Compost: Thinking Does Not ALWAYS Mean Procrastination

Happy Monday, Everyone! Even with the slow time of year, I find maintaining a writing schedule difficult, but it is ONE habit I am determined to re-create (and keep.) Got up at 5:30 am this morning and wrote, edited, researched and thought. And honestly, I felt I didn’t accomplish much. I spent way too much time researching and thinking about how to execute a murder, instead of writing about it. So what did I do? I went to my NaNoWriMo…

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