For Writers

Smart.  Talented.  Special.  Gifted.  Bright. Stupid.  Unskilled.  Ordinary.  Average.  Dull. If you’re not one, you must be the other, right? No:  there’s a third set of descriptions that’s better than both of the ones above, and it goes like this: Hard worker.  Dedicated.  Pays attention.  Asks questions.  Practices. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I am going to […]

When do we fail as writers? Logically, we fail when we don’t fail, that is, when we don’t try.  It’s like the lottery:  you can’t win if you don’t play. The odds of winning the Powerball Grand Prize are 1 in 195,249,054. The odds of winning the $3 ticket are 1 in 61.74.  There are

I don’t know…I have visions of people breaking down in tears…”How could you say something so harsh?!?” — What’s a normal response to failure? Upset, despair, grief, horror, shame…? What’s an abnormal response to failure? Celebration!  Amazement!  Breaking out the champagne! And so we try to avoid failure and gravitate toward success, because failure feels

All, I got invited to talk at the Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference in April!  I completely bounced off the walls when I found out; I think it’s one of those things that I subconsciously marked at “a sign of success” but didn’t know it. When I’m making more $$$ as a freelancer, I’d like to