Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 92

Walking the Line, by Josh Stallings

 Q: Life: Sitting around all day isn’t good for us – we all know that. Sitting around all day (writing) is what we authors are expected to do. How do you find a healthy balance so that your body is able to sustain the work your mind needs to undertake? And what are you up to in 2022 that this will help you achieve?

A: I have said, “Writing problems are solved with a keyboard in my hand.” Buuut, that’s not true, part of my job is thinking. I often wake from a dream and scribble down a solution, (p...

Jack’s a dull boy

Image by Andreas Riedelmeier

Sitting around all day isn’t good for us – we all know that. Sitting around all day (writing) is what we authors are expected to do. How do you find a healthy balance so that your body is able to sustain the work your mind needs to undertake? And what are you up to in 2022 that this will help you achieve?

by Dietrich

It used to be, I’d get fixed on a part of a story, and I’d get on a writing roll, burning the candle down and refusing to get out of my chair till the muse...

Say hello to my little friend... by Cathy Ace

Life: Sitting around all day isn’t good for us – we all know that. Sitting around all day (writing) is what we authors are expected to do. How do you find a healthy balance so that your body is able to sustain the work your mind needs to undertake? And what are you up to in 2022 that this will help you achieve?

I’m pretty positive that I’ve not found a healthy balance at all. Why am I so sure? Well, for Christmas 2020 I was given one of those watches that connects to your phone…and takes over yo...

I Sit and Ponder

Sitting around all day isn’t good for us – we all know that. Sitting around all day (writing) is what we authors are expected to do. How do you find a healthy balance so that your body is able to sustain the work your mind needs to undertake? And what are you up to in 2022 that this will help you achieve?

From Frank

The shortest answer is that I should do yoga more often.

When I am practicing yoga, I wonder why in the heck I ever don't practice it. But inevitably, I slide away from being consistent...

Me and My Screen

 Q: Sitting around all day isn’t good for us – we all know that. Sitting around all day (writing) is what we authors are expected to do. How do you find a healthy balance so that your body is able to sustain the work your mind needs to undertake? And what are you up to in 2022 that this will help you achieve?

-from Susan

 

Step one: Understand that sitting in front of a computer all day isn’t good for me.

 

Step two: Implement a plan to run downstairs every couple of hours and eat something. 

Food hel...

What's New For '22?

by AbirWe seem to have moved from “unprecedented times” to “a constantly fluid situation”. What did you learn in 2021 about the “new normal” of the business of being an author that you’re going to use to help your future career, and please tell us what you’re planning for 2022.

 

 

Friday again, thank goodness, and here we all are, crawling to the finish line of another working week. Except in the new normal, the working week has become blurred. We’re working odd hours in our pyjamas, eating second...

I Don’t Have a Ouija Board from James W. Ziskin

We seem to have moved from “unprecedented times” to “a constantly fluid situation”. What did you learn in 2021 about the “new normal” of the business of being an author that you’re going to use to help your future career, and please tell us what you’re planning for 2022.

Good question this week. What did I learn about the “new normal” in publishing? I learned that we roll with punches. It’s a cliché, I know, but apt. We all figured out how to Zoom. And how to Crowdcast. We learned how to light ou...

The Lessons We Learn (from the questions we ask): Catriona interviews Liz Milliron

Catriona writes: I am trampling over all the lines in hobnailed boots here. For a start, it's not my day (it's not even my week) - so thanks to Dietrich for stepping aside. And then, I didn't let our returning guest - Liz Milliron - loose on the QotW. Instead, I floated an "interview" as the form of her guest post. But you know what? Even that was just me asking what I wanted to know about the Home Front Mysteries, which I love. Who could resist a woman making planes for Bell in 1940s Buffalo (b...

Brave New Publishing World

 

Terry here:
The question we are talking about this week is: We seem to have moved from “unprecedented times” to “a constantly fluid situation”. What did you learn in 2021 about the “new normal” of the business of being an author that you’re going to use to help your future career, and please tell us what you’re planning for 2022. 
“New normal” has been a fluid situation for as long as I can remember in the publishing industry. It seems like nothing stays the same. In contrast to the dramatic chan...

Finding a New Normal

We seem to have moved from “unprecedented times” to “a constantly fluid situation”. What did you learn in 2021 about the “new normal” of the business of being an author that you’re going to use to help your future career, and please tell us what you’re planning for 2022.

Brenda Chapman here.

The impact of the pandemic on the book industry is difficult to analyse, but easier to see on a personal level. Initially, the lockdown meant that all the public appearances, the launch and media interviews I ...