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It's a Writer Thing #11: It's all about control...

Hello lovely writers! Welcome back to my It’s a Writer Thing mini-series on stimulus control and generalizability. As you may recall, I’m a clinical psychologist, which means I get to take advantage of all those great psychological theories and put them to work for me in my writing, and I want to share that with you.

In my last two posts, I talked about the benefit of ingraining a very powerful urge to write by creating a habit. Writing under the same circumstances every day for a few we...

Karma, because we love books.

"Ode to A Havanese"

It's a Writer Thing #9: Harness the power of stimulus control in your writing

Welcome back to It ’s a Writer Thing. Over the last few months, I’ve been writing about all things feedback. I hope you found those posts helpful, and if you did (or didn’t), I’d LOVE to hear from you. Please go ahead and leave a comment below. Today I’m switching gears. I’m very excited to write today’s blog post, because I get to dig into my psychologist bag of tricks for this one. From nine-to-five, I’m a clinical psychologist, and so much of what I studied all those years in school i...

It's a Writer Thing: Process for responding to feedback

Welcome back to my It's a Writer Thingseries on receiving feedback. As always, I want to thank Amber Gregg for hosting this series on her awesome blog on all things writing, "Judging More than Just the Cover." This time, I’m going to discuss my very own method of responding when my inbox pings the arrival of both the most coveted and the most dreaded missive in an author’s life: a critique. As I write this, I have one waiting in my inbox, so I can speak from my most immediate experience...

A good writer...

In which an author gets to try her hand at acquisitions editing

One of the best parts of getting stories accepted in anthologies is the fact that you get to meet new people. Because our contributions to "Fright before Christmas," I got to meet Ty Drago, the awesome author of "The Undertaker" series, the super fun and freaky MG zombie series. Not only did he share some of his thoughts on my latest MG horror concept, he invited me to "audition" as associate editor for the eZine he runs. And I passed!

Allegory eZine, a bi-annual magazine for Sci-Fi, Fantasy,...

It's a Writer Thing - The Many Faces of Critique Partners

Happy June, everyone! I must send a HUGE thanks toAmber Greggfor continuing to host myIt's a Writer Thingseries on her incredible blog, "Judging More than Just The Cover." I’ve been very much looking forward to writing this next post in my It’s a Writer Thing series on feedback. In the first, I wrote about general considerations for receiving feedback, and in the second, I discussed types of feedback. This time, I’ll be talking about critique partners. As we know, one of our biggest sou...

The suffering is real

It's a Writer Thing-Feedback Post #2

Welcome back to my It’s a Writer Thing special focus on feedback. Once again, I'm sending a HUGE thank you to Amber Gregg, author and blogger, for hosting my It's a Writer Thing series on her blog, "Judging More than Just the Cover." Check there for book reviews and other great author interviews and articles.

The last post in this seriescovered thegivens of receiving input on our writing, and today, I’ll discuss a couple basic types of feedback.

1. Formative feedback. I got the following de...