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April 5, 2020
Enrichment Activities for Writers: Day 5
Enrichment Activities: 30 Days of Stay-at-Home Learning, Business, and Self-Care Activities for Writers Fiction writer? Home? Bored? Thinking that you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere with that? First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Second, have I got some ideas for you! If you’re spinning […]
April 4, 2020
Enrichment Activities for Writers: Day 4
Enrichment Activities: 30 Days of Stay-at-Home Learning, Business, and Self-Care Activities for Writers Fiction writer? Home? Bored? Thinking that you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere with that? First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Second, have I got some ideas for you! If you’re spinning […]
April 3, 2020
Enrichment Activities for Writers: Day 3
Enrichment Activities: 30 Days of Stay-at-Home Learning, Business, and Self-Care Activities for Writers Fiction writer? Home? Bored? Thinking that you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere with that? First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Second, have I got some ideas for you! If you’re spinning […]
April 2, 2020
Enrichment Activities for Writers: Day 2
Enrichment Activities: 30 Days of Stay-at-Home Learning, Business, and Self-Care Activities for Writers Fiction writer? Home? Bored? Thinking that you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere with that? First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Second, have I got some ideas for you! If you’re spinning […]
April 1, 2020
Enrichment Activities for Writers: Day 1
Enrichment Activities: 30 Days of Stay-at-Home Learning, Business, and Self-Care Activities for Writers Fiction writer? Home? Bored? Thinking that you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere with that? First, let me recommend that you take it easy on yourself. Second, have I got some ideas for you! If you’re spinning […]
March 30, 2020
No Blog Today!
With the shutdowns due to COVID-19 and various other real-life disruptions, I decided to just acknowledge that it wasn’t business as usual for yours truly, and do a short (but nutty) project about helping writers cope, particularly writers who weren’t used to working from home or having the time to conceive of what they do […]
March 23, 2020
Writing Craft: How to write faster and more often (more burning questions!)
(This is from my writing craft series; you can read more on Patreon. Please note that these first posts are about things that aren’t strictly about the craft of writing, but the craft of surviving as a writer, if you will, because I want to get them out of the way first.) … Faster. Believe […]
March 16, 2020
What Makes a Good Blog?
Blogging, in general, has overall strategies and individual tactics. I’m not going to talk about why to blog, what to blog in general (although I will touch on what to blog in particular), or how often to blog. This is just a blog on tactics. What makes a good blog? How do you sit down […]
March 9, 2020
Writing Craft: Am I even a real writer, and other burning questions.
(This is from my writing craft series; you can read more on Patreon. Please note that these first posts are about things that aren’t strictly about the craft of writing, but the craft of surviving as a writer, if you will, because I want to get them out of the way first.) … This section […]
March 2, 2020
Why can’t I write high fantasy?
So I’ve always struggled to write high fantasy. “High fantasy” was a term coined in 1971 by Lloyd Alexander, author of The Black Cauldron and other novels, to describe fantasy set in a secondary world that is not a version of the “real” world. The Lord of the Rings is high fantasy. I like reading high fantasy; I just struggle […]
