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Today I want to talk about comfort zones, and how important it is to stretch those limits. I’m sure there is some neurological research about how trying new things strengthens your brain (in fact, I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere), but I also want to talk about your fears and how to confront them. […]
Today, for a change, a video:
Writerland: Reading Out Loud from Meghan Ward on Vimeo.
Between fighting a cold and organizing my toddler’s birthday party, I’m a little late in getting links out. For people visiting for the first time, it’s tradition on writing and publishing blogs to post links to your favorite articles of the week. Here are mine:
An inspirational post from an intern at The Bent Agency, […]
Jacquelyn Wheeler is the author of Rising Shadow, a YA sci-fi novel.
How long did it take you to write Rising Shadow?
It took me about nine weeks to write the first draft and then about nine months to edit it, although during that time I was also working on books two and […]
When I’m editing, one of the most common mistakes I see is the absence or misplacement of the comma. People, put commas, in places they don’t belong and they leave commas out of places they do belong. There ARE rules for when, and when not, to use commas. Here they are:
When to use a […]
Here are links to my favorite writing and publishing blog posts this week:
Jade Park wrote a great post about rejection.
This news is a month old already, but I still find it fascinating that a Georgia court awarded a woman $100,000 after she claimed that a childhood friend portrayed her as an “alcoholic slut” […]
I’m curious why people buy the books they buy. Because someone recommended it? Because you saw it in a bookstore and it looked interesting? Because you read a review? Because you’ve read a previous book by the author and liked it? (Below I list the last ten books I bought and why I bought them […]
1. The Stopwatch
Writers are notoriously undisciplined and, consequently, always looking for methods and gadgets to trick them into writing. One that I use is a stopwatch. At first I bought a physical stopwatch from a sporting goods store, but now I use a stopwatch widget on my computer. I set a number of hours […]
If you’re working on a book-length project, whether it be a novel, a memoir, a nonfiction book or a doctoral thesis, you’ll probably need an editor at some point. You may have writer/editor friends who can do it for little or no money, or you may prefer to wait until you get that book deal, […]
Today I want to talk about rejection and how we, as writers, deal with it. When I was modeling in Europe (MANY years ago), I went on castings nearly every day. If I did 20 castings in a week and got two jobs out of those, I was doing pretty well (two jobs a week […]
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