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June 3, 2013
Filling the Blank Pages #2 – Pain Shared is Pain Halved
Writing is a lonely business. Generally speaking, one does it alone, and the silence is deafening when the page is blank, hands are poised, and nary an idea is present. How to fix this? Get some friends to suffer along … Continue reading →
May 28, 2013
Filling the Blank Pages #3 – 3 Words and 3 minutes
More than 15 years ago, I ran across one of those websites where they insist you can be a writer…that you are, in fact, already a writer although you may not know it. They were selling something (that I didn’t … Continue reading →
May 22, 2013
Filling the Blank Pages #4 – Type? Pfft! Talk Your Novel to The End
Voice Activated Software has been around long enough now that most of the bugs are worked out and it works rather well. Standing around talking your novel is much easier and more fun than stressing your carpel tunnel nerves. The … Continue reading →
May 13, 2013
#5 Filling the Blank Pages – Pay Attention to Time
I noticed that I’ve been working on these 10 items for a while…and #6 was over a month ago. That got me to thinking about time and writing and how not enough of them both leaves pages empty. Then I … Continue reading →
April 2, 2013
Page Still Empty–or worse? Full but Crap?: Item #6 – Can Autocrit Help?
I have 11 manuscripts that are complete—in first draft. Know why? Because I hate editing . Also because I got stuck. I had some full pages (a lot of them!), but even full pages aren’t finished pages…so frankly at this … Continue reading →
March 29, 2013
Lover at Last by JR Ward
Just finished Lover at Last by JR Ward. Wow oh wowee wow wow. That’s my rating. LOL This isn’t really a review…it’s more of a Thank You. If you haven’t been following the Black Dagger Brotherhood (BDB) series (why not?), … Continue reading →
March 25, 2013
Filling the Blank Page #7: Write Or Die
Sometimes the only thing holding me back from filling the page—is me. I’m not typing. I’m not typing, and the pages stay blank. When I get stuck like this, I fire up this fantastic app called Write or Die. I … Continue reading →
March 18, 2013
Filling Blank Pages Without Effort – This week, #8: The Secret for Writing Bestsellers
Great blog title, huh? Every writer at some point in their life has probably googled this. (And probably been disappointed in the answer.) After all the reading and digging, here are the answers we get: Write every day. Write a … Continue reading →
March 4, 2013
Still looking for ways to fill the blank page? This week, #9: Movies Gone Wrong
Ever watch a movie and think, “That’s not how that should have happened? Ever yell at the television, “No *way* he would do that!!!” Ever walk out of a theater thinking, “Man, that could have been good if…” This happens … Continue reading →
February 25, 2013
Staring at the Blank Page – Or how to brainstorm 10 ideas in 10 minutes
Ever want to write something—novel, short story, article, or even a blog post—and can’t come up with even one decent idea? Over the next 10 weeks, I’m going to talk about 10 ways to brainstorm ideas for anything you want … Continue reading →
