Back in November, I was furiously hammering at my keyboard every day, determined to achieve a crazy word count goal and bang out the first draft of a new novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, if you’re unfamiliar, wherein…
Okay at first I wasn’t going to say anything regarding the latest Let’s Bash Self-Publishing rant over at HuffPo, but (like all “real” writers) I am in the business of serving my audience—YOU—what you want to hear and after about…
Frank Foreman, 1983 Today’s guest post is by author and editor Melanie Bishop (@melbishopwriter). Be sure to also read her post on The Value of Writing Retreats. One of the ways that retreats help us to write is by greatly…
Today’s guest post is by writer, editor, and teacher Melanie Bishop (@melbishopwriter). She is hosting a memoir writing retreat in Carmel-by-the-Sea this January. On a foggy morning in September of 1994, a staff member at Hedgebrook drove me and my…
Today’s guest post is an excerpt from Creative Visualization for Writers by Nina Amir (@ninaamir), published by Writer’s Digest Books. The most successful people in every industry use goals as road maps to help them reach their desired destination. It’s…