helping writers write more
1
Sep
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!
<balloons> <cheering> <confetti>
Today marks the 2-year anniversary of Routines for Writers! Yay! Sometimes it seems like we’ve been doing this forever, while other times it seems we’ve barely begun to figure out who we are and what we’re really about.
That’s how it is with writing and lots of other creative pursuits. [...]
31
Aug
First up I’d just like to say a big (and very jolly) happy second anniversary to Routines for Writers. As a writer who has a very bad routine, I’m a big fan of anything that can help motivate writers to…well write!!! However, today I thought I would take my author hat off and tell you [...]
25
Aug
I’ve always wondered if Paul in the Bible knew a lot of runners. Oh! Maybe Greek Olympians! Wouldn’t that be cool?! He used a lot of running analogies in his writing. Lately, I’ve started thinking about writing in terms of running.
You might have heard me talk about running here. I talk about it on Facebook [...]
18
Aug
I just returned from the Romance Writers of Australia National Conference. (It was held at a hotel within walking distance of my home, so I use the word “returned” loosely!) What a great weekend! If there is one thing that will get your creativity flowing and your motivation recharged, it’s hanging out with lots of [...]
11
Aug
Part of the process of finishing is going back and revising. That means not only moving some sentences around, checking eye and hair color of every character all the way through, and other polishing type touches, but it also means throwing out whole chapters, moving big chunks from one place to another, and then rewriting [...]
4
Aug
I’ve been having a hard time finishing my current work-in-progress. That’s really begun to bother me in the last few weeks. Granted, enrolling in an advanced degree program of any kind is not necessarily conducive to finishing any non-school-related projects. (I started the second semester of my Master of Arts in Creative Writing program this [...]
28
Jul
I can hardly believe this is our 100th week for Routines for Writers! It’s been fun going back over old posts and trying to decide what my favorites are – and fun to see a pattern in my faves! Here are my Top Ten favorite posts over the last 100 weeks.
I like reminding myself how [...]
21
Jul
Writers often read for pleasure differently than non-writers. We see things that others don’t – typos, errors in logic, problems with point of view, questions in character motivation, and lots more. And so many times we think, now so long as I don’t do that, I’ll be fine. Or, if only I could do that [...]
14
Jul
I had a bad week last week. I got a couple of my final school papers in the mail and I wasn’t pleased with my grades nor all the comments from my teachers. I thought I’d done a lot better than I had. (If you didn’t know, I’m getting my Master of Arts in Creative [...]
7
Jul
Every now and then you have a week when you find all kinds of great information and interesting articles. It’s been such a week for me. For instance, a few weeks ago I was cursing Microsoft Word (I really should try Apple’s Pages program since it’s on my computer) because it kept changing what I [...]