If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.” ~Anne Lamott
One of my favorite storytellers is David Sedaris. So, of course, when I decided to enroll in MasterClass, as one of my fall bucket list items, his was the first course I took. And what is the Sedaris secret for better storytelling…I mean, besides writing and rewriting and rewriting again? Ask better questions. If you…
I’m baaack! I don’t know if you noticed I was absent last week, but I was. My well had run dry. I needed a weekend laughing and talking with my sisters. I needed to celebrate my granddaughter’s birthday. I needed a week spent reading others blogs…soaking in their wisdom and wit without worrying about coming…
Start your day right with journaling Transcript Hello and happy Monday! Today I’m going to share with you a little tip for starting your day right, whether it’s Monday or any day of the week, and that is journaling. Now before you tell me you’re too busy or you don’t like to write, this is…
Thank you Betty and Maddi… for coming together for the Murray High School homecoming game. It just so happens we had family from both teams that night. Betty (GG) graduated with the class of 1945 from Murray High School. Maddi is a cheerleader for Cottonwood High School and will graduate with the class of 2023….
Well, I spent the last two hours trying to figure out what I wanted to write about in this week’s blog, and I’m not any closer to knowing the answer than I was when I first sat down in front of the computer. That doesn’t happen often. I usually have a schedule laid out at…
I am a woman of few words. That might be a strange way for a writer to describe herself. I mean I’ve been publishing a weekly blog for more than three years now, and I’ve worked as a communication professional for 30. However, as you may have noticed, I usually get straight to the point….
Since I wrote about the need to re-evaluate my writing goals, I have been writing the additional scenes my novel needs to be complete. I made a commitment to schedule time specifically for this writing every week, and I’ve stuck to it. I was making pretty good progress, and then I ran into a situation….
One of the items on my Winter Bucket List is to start querying agents (again). You’d think since I have written a query letter and only need to tweak it and start researching agents, this would be an easy matter. But more than a month into winter I haven’t even begun. Part of it is…
I recently published a post on traditional versus self-publishing, and the discussion that followed was truly enlightening. I was excited to see how many of you are also working on books and making decisions about modes of publishing. I also learned of a third option for today’s writer: hybrid publishing. Because I don’t know much…
There was a time, not so long ago, if you’d written a book that you wanted to share with readers, you had one option—query agents, survive countless rejections, finally hook one; then wait for the agent to try selling your manuscript to publishers, survive more rejections, and with any luck, finally sign a contract. At…
