More busy days with my day-job, so I’m sorry these blog posts are coming slowly. But not it’s Friday night, work is over for the week, laundry is folded — almost — and I’m sitting in front of Becoming Jane, laptop on my lap and glass of wine by my side. Ahhh Here’s number two…
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Today we have an interview with author Paul Maurice Martin, whose non-fiction book Original Faith: What Your Life Is Trying to Tell You came out last year. Paul has a wonderful story about writing while overcoming illness. Thanks for being on DayByDayWriter today, Paul, and congratulations on your book. Please tell us a little about Original Faith…
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Typing The End after spending months or even years writing a book is an exciting, thrilling thing. But when it’s done, what do you do? After celebrating with a nice dinner and good bottle of wine, if you’re like me, you want to scroll all the way back up to page 1 and start revising.…
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Current word count: 21,859 New words written: 966 Words til goal: 18,141 / 422 words a day til the end of September Another good writing morning. Yay! I’m at a strange part of my story for me. My characters have moved to a different world, and I haven’t created a different world before, so it has been…
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Current word count: 19,901 New words written: 1,067 Words til goal: 20,099 / 436 words a day til the end of September I had a good writing day and made my weekend goal in one day. Yay! Hopefully I can do the same tomorrow. We’ll see. The story is coming together again now that the characters…
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TED.com has a video of a great talk from author Elizabeth Gilbert about nurturing creativity. She talks about where creativity comes from and how in today’s society, when an author or creative person achieves a certain amount of success, there’s enormous pressure to do even better next time. Gilbert can attest after the huge (she calls…
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One of the best pieces of writing advice I have heard was to find the 10th way of doing things. It was in a screenwriting seminar, and I apologize to the wise man who said this, because I can’t remember who it was. Let’s call him Will (after Shakespeare, who no doubt used this rule whether he knew…
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