Writing Tips Category

Osmosis (maybe) applies to writing skills…

Posted on April 19, 2021     Leave a Comment

The flip side of sharing my work was reading the work of others. Connecting personally with writers (in my genre and outside of it) and positively critiquing their work gave me another leap forward in my writing journey. In addition to reading published works, I improved my writing skills by consuming and discussing the unpublished […]

Read More

Sharing your work is scary. Share anyway…

Posted on April 5, 2021     1 Comment

I’m not ready. Is it good enough? What if they hate it? Putting your work in front of other people can be scary. Even thinking about letting others read your book can make you want to run screaming or hide under the bed. (Hopefully you don’t hold it tightly while murmuring my precious…) Being nervous […]

Read More

Back it up, back it up…

Posted on March 22, 2021     1 Comment

Think you just lost your work? Don’t Panic. Easier said than done. Channeling Douglas Adams didn’t stop my meltdown one Sunday morning. I absolutely panicked. I wanted to cry because I thought I lost thirty pages of rewrites I was very excited about. My laptop automatically syncs to the cloud. Did I remember that in […]

Read More