For the Love…
Whether you’ve had someone to send a loving card to, or whether you received love tokens, love is the key to an author’s life.
Whether you’ve had someone to send a loving card to, or whether you received love tokens, love is the key to an author’s life.
What Has Happened?
Nothing much, where my writing life is concerned. Scribbles in notebooks, thoughts muddling in my mind, general malaise and lack of enough energy to write. I’m motivated but motionless.
You have your next story title or theme, the germ of an ideas, an inkling, that feeling, that piece of dialogue running in your mind…NOW you need to nail your story by capturing your notes in one place.
This is a good point at which to consider Hope …as the United States has a new President and as the United Kingdom rolls out its vaccination program on a large scale. Both countries are up against the Covid enemy and daily life is unrecognisable to many.
As I type, the United Kingdom is locked down against a deadly virus – you know which one. It’s 2021 now and we’ve been unable to travel anywhere down on and off for 10 months or so.
How any writer plans, plots and proceeds is as individualised and personal as their method of organisation – or lack of it. If the word ORGANISE makes you shudder – if chaos is your thing, think about it with the Later Writer for a while. This post is for you…
“…each magazine, website, publishing house, competition exists to fox you and me! Not really, but record keeping is essential to ensure you recall which story has gone where, when and why.”
It is the night before Christmas and you may wonder what has happened to my usual post? Well, I’m here now… I know countless wouldbe and alreadybe authors all over the world will make plans (don’t look up alreadybe, I made that up). Some might be kept, developed and bring satisfaction and success. Other plans might be overworked (guilty of that one) and fall by […]
“I thought it high time I looked again at the suggestions and prompts I made in those two articles – this will be the last one on the theme.”
Two posts in one week because, in HOW MARKETS CAN PROMPT YOU TO WRITE: PART TWO, I wrote: Time to freewrite, or write freely Ignore that INNER CRITIC, stop looking for distractions, just write. Topic: I Survived Brain Surgery I will freewrite for 20 minutes… [shackle Inner Critic] I Survived Brain Surgery I know a man, a Neurosurgeon highly skilled in skull base surgery, who has […]