Writing: Do It For Your Inner Two-Year-Old

You know how for some people, it’s easier to do something if it’s for someone else’s sake, not your own?  I’m that way about writer stuff.  If I weren’t doing it in order to accomplish the writing dream, I wouldn’t do it because: I don’t deserve it (I may have mentioned I have self-confidence issues), …

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Pantsing: Reading from the Book of Books

So “plotting” is the current writer term for “I write a plot outline before I write a book.”  “Pantsing” is the current writer term for “I write a book without writing a plot outline beforehand (in other words, by the seat of my pants.)” Plotters seem to feel that pantsers are cheating somehow.  “Just admit …

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Don’t Wanna: Dealing with Editorial Changes

Here’s the thing about editorial changes: If you could have done it right the first time, you would have. This is hard for editors to understand; I know, because I’ve taken the same attitude toward my editorial clients that my ghostwriting clients have taken toward me: But it’s not that big of a change…just try …

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