Are you a writer? Do you want to be? What form does writing take for you? Do you journal, write stories or essays, work on articles to pitch, or are you working on a novel? Whatever you write, I encourage you to keep writing. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how much experience you …
Carol writes regularly over at her website, Never… Ever… Give Up Hope. This post was originally shared there. There is a word that you’ll find almost always brings groans and utterances under one’s breath. People often talk about this word and wish they could remove it from their vocabulary. That word is procrastination. Many …
With a new year just beginning, I’m committing once again to three motivational words that helped me successfully remake my writing schedule to become a morning writer and achieve my goals in 2014. DO THE WORK. That’s it. The words are simple, and they’re not just for writers. You want to run a marathon? Make …
Some mornings I can’t wait to jump out of bed to write, even if it’s just a Facebook or Twitter update. And some days, well, I feel I’ve lost touch with my writing mojo – that spark to create something that excites me. I forget this is my playground that I created and I can …
Every day my dog wakes up with a mission: to catch a squirrel. Day after day, he sits at the back window watching them. They dart around the yard, up the trunk of the big oak tree, into the treehouse. They leap from rooftop to treetop to trampoline like little stunt men practicing parkour moves for an …
