Author Crush Month: Lauraine Snelling

Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in Productivity

My very first writers conference was a gift from my friend Janet. She didn’t want to go to her first writers conference alone. Together with our also-first-timer friend Lisa, the three of us sat in on a five-day workshop for fiction writers, all of us trying to believe we weren’t scared to death. But as [...]

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Jan

Revision – Taming a Wild Horse

Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in Craft

January means a new start for many people in a variety of areas in life. For those of us who wrote madly during November, January is often the first chance we have to sit down and focus on rewriting that crazy new story. I took two weeks off at Christmas, so the details of my [...]

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Apr

Plan Your Own Writing Retreat

Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in Creativity, Productivity

Writing retreats can be a rejuvenating and valuable experience. If you know yourself well enough to know what you really need, they can pump up your productivity as well as your creativity. The key is to know the difference between what you need and what you want.
Here are some things to help you decide what [...]

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Mar

The Good, The Bad, and the AAARRGHHH!!!!

Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in Craft, Networking

Writing groups and critique partners. This is a topic where writers nod sagely to each other over the heads of new folks asking the question…
How do I find a critique group?
Maybe it’s because I live in Los Angeles and worked in the film and television industry before I started writing full-time, but I have one [...]

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Jan

Back Away From Your Computer!

Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in Craft, Organization

The more we blog about our routines, the more Stephanie and Shonna and I realize how different we are! I am sooo not like Stephanie! LOL! Yes, sometimes I get caught up in the 80 directions a story could go if I let my imagination run wild. But I’m too much of a control freak [...]

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Jan