Focused Writing Time
by Ann McCauley If we seriously want to write, we need to have tunnel vision to focus on our projects. There is simply no substitute for hard work. And don’t…
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A Notebook is a Writer’s Best Friend
Michael Dittman On Halloween’s Eve 2018, I watched as workers felled a giant oak across the street from my house. When I moved to this small city outside of Pittsburgh,…
Book in Progress #10: Reaching Out
Joe Taylor Results have exceeded my expectations. I should feel grateful. Instead, I feel thankful. Of the 78 copies of “I’m Just Lucky To Own My Own Car” that I’ve…
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I Simply, Simply Cannot
Stacey Gross “How to Beat Writer’s Block Once and For All.” “Fourteen Tips to Blast Through Writer’s Block.” “Writer’s Block Isn’t Real, You’re Just Incredibly Lazy. And Untalented. And You…
Book in Progress, Part 9: Selling the Book
Joe Taylor The Writing End Game Why do you want to write a book? Because you have something the world needs to hear? You want to entertain readers with a…
Do You Validate?
Guest blogger Stacey Gross I remember when I was a kid we had this parking lot in town. I’m from Warren, Pa., so understand that the majority of my downtown…
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Write Like You Talk
Stacey Gross Sedaris as Example David Sedaris is the most brilliant man alive. Thank god that man picked up a pen and never put it down. David Sedaris can write…
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Self-Publishing: Book in Progress, Part 8
by Joe Taylor - why self-publishing became an attractive option, given some drawbacks The Vision of a Book Admit it, this has happened to you---a friend reads a couple of…
Getting the Book Tested – Book in Progress, Part 7
by Joe Taylor Legitimate Doubts Just the other day I tore up and threw away the list of over 80 literary agents that I had queried about finding a publisher…
Book in Progress, Part 6: I Believe in My Book
by Joe Taylor To be brutally honest, it's been worse than brutal. It's been silent. A month after Labor Day, when I thought my responses from prospective agents might pick…