August 30, 2017
I’ve been blogging about the need for an editor and ways to find one. Most writers also have an inner editor. You know what I mean. It’s that little voice in our head that says… You can’t write That sucks No one will want this story Give up (This list could go on and on. […]
August 7, 2013
I’ve often heard that surgeons don’t have surgeon’s block, so writers shouldn’t have writer’s block. I think I’ve even quoted that. But now that I’m suffering (that’s probably not the right word to use since what I’m going through doesn’t really equal suffering) from writer’s block, I’m rethinking the analogy. Maybe when the surgeon is […]
September 28, 2011
Leave it is a command I give my dog when I want him to ignore something. It might be another dog, something on the ground, or a tree he’s sniffing. Leave it is also something I tell myself when I reach a point in my writing where I’m not quite sure where I’m headed or […]