One thing I’ve noticed as I read our Author Crush guest blogs is that routines are inevitable. Even when I think I’m not organized or methodical, I WILL have a routine. Even if it seems as though I’m procrastinating and ignoring the work, like [...]
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8
Mar
Lessons from Author Crush Month
Posted by Stephanie Shackelford Published in Making Goals, Productivity1 comment
5
Mar
Author Crush month is so much fun. The authors we contact are all very gracious to give us a glimpse into their writing life. Truly, the authors we hosted last month were both entertaining and encouraging.
I get tickled when I think about our fascination with how writers work. What an odd profession when trainees, contemporaries, [...]
3
Mar
Last month, we heard from over a dozen authors who shared with us their writing routines. Or lack thereof. If there is one clear take-away, it is that there is no one right way to write. Perhaps not even one right way for each person.
When I started to realize that I identified with both the [...]
24
Feb
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 [...]
17
Feb
I’ve been reading Jackie Diamond’s romances for years. They always make me laugh and smile – real “feel good” books! Her characters always seem like real people to me, and I always find myself genuinely liking them. Just like I genuinely like Jackie! She’s just the nicest person you could hope to meet – friendly, [...]
15
Feb
I’ve been reading Julie Garwood’s books since just about the time she started publishing them. There is such a sense of adventure, not just to the life of the heroine, but to the love story itself! I have read and re-read The Gift so many times I almost know it by heart. I found Guardian [...]
10
Feb
In the process of reading several Harlequin American Romance books to understand the line I want to write for, I kept finding Marin Thomas books and thinking, “Hey, I really like this one.” Over and over. It didn’t take long before I decided – she is one of my new favorite authors! I wrote and [...]
3
Feb
I’m so excited to introduce you to one of my favorite new authors! When a friend at a writer’s retreat raved about Demon: A Memoir last summer, half of us bought the book immediately on our Kindles. Unfortunately, the one time my husband was listening while I was talking was when I told him about [...]
8
Dec
Guest blog by James Scott Bell . . . and a contest
Posted by Stephanie Shackelford Published in Making Goals, ProductivityRoutines For Writers is thrilled to have James Scott Bell with us today. He’ll be sharing his routines with us as well as launching our very first contest! Details on the contest are below this post. After you read his blog, go check out the free download of a sampling of his new [...]
7
Dec
I’m a big fan of putting routines into place that make accomplishing your goals and desires as automatic as possible. That wasn’t always the case. Being the spontaneous, let’s have fun as often as we can type of person that I am, it took me a long time to realize that establishing routines would [...]
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