Leesa Freeman's Blog, page 10

Genius: Are You One, or Do You Have One?

Loathing Your WIP

When I was in the midst of writing The Wisdom to Know the Difference, I hated it! Hated it! Every time I sat down to work on it, I’d have to force myself to meet my word quota for the day, and towards the end the only reason I kept going was so I could [...]

Chapters: Does Size Really Matter?

For the past few days I’ve been arguing with myself about how long a chapter should be? Is it a scene? Should it cover a particular theme? Does it matter? The easy answer is it’s not the size, but what you do with it that counts. And yes, that’s probably true, but when I started [...]

Write Now – And Get 20% Off!

Have you ever spent time at a Writer’s Retreat? Have you ever wondered if you should? Before I went to When Words Count Retreat, I thought it’d be kinda cool, but also wondered whether it’d be worth it. I kept hearing I’d get “so much done,” which surely sounded like the kiss of death. Not [...]

Writer Unboxed

When locked in your little Writing Cave, half-blind from staring at the bright computer screen, and certain you’re going to have early-onset arthritis from pounding on the keyboard for hours on end, it’s easy to believe you are the only one locked away in Writing Hell. (Or is it Writing Heaven? Some days I’m not [...]

Kill the Adverbs

I finished a book the other day by a very well-known author (no, I won’t name her, she has enough money and notoriety) and while the story itself was okay, the adverbs killed me! There were the usual, of course – quickly, happily, easily – and some that I swear to god she just threw in just [...]

On a Dare – Guest post by Cindy Sprigg

I started writing on a bet with my son. Since he was a young boy, instead of playing outside, as most children would be doing, would instead be seen curled up in some comfortable place, pen and paper in hand, writing stories. This is still very much the case today,except he is now a young [...]

On Writing – Guest Post by Neal James

I’m a Derbyshire author, am 61 this year, and have been writing since 2006 when an idea for a family ‘saga’ was triggered by the death of my wife’s father. 33 years of earning a living in a professional capacity as an accountant provided the kind of discipline needed to complete novels ranging from 65,000 [...]

Superman in Profile

I recently posted on Facebook that there’s a point in Man of Steel when it almost seems as if Henry Cavill is channeling Christopher Reeve – the resemblance is so uncanny it nearly made me cry. I’m a sap, I know. Anyway, in that conversation my friend Hector asked me to write a post on Superman, [...]

Google Alerts – Guest Post by Kandy Kay Scaramuzzo

My book, Pie An Old Brown Horse (That Knows What He Is Doing),  has been out about six months now. I had no idea how much time promoting my book would take when I wrote it. Like many people I thought it would just go into Amazon and be an instant seller. Big surprise there, [...]