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Creating a Writing Tribe
If you’re a writer, it’s likely that you spend a lot of time by yourself. While you can talk about your writing process, current WIP or latest bout of writers’ block with your friends and family, it is a vastly… Continue reading
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How to Make Working from Home Work
If you are self-employed and work from home, then you are largely in charge of your schedule. People around you (family and friends) may misinterpret this control as meaning that you work “whenever you feel like it.” (Watch the… Continue reading
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Self-care For Writers
(Watch the vlog version of this post here) We’re all familiar with the image of the brooding writer with unkempt hair leaning crocked back over their desk with a bottle of whisky carefully concealed… Continue reading
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The Seven Elements of Book Cover Design
Your book’s cover is the most powerful marketing tool at your disposal. Whether we like it or not, we all judge books by their covers. Continue reading
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The Permission to Write
You get to write whatever stories you want to write. I do my best to read widely. That includes everything from Wyoming cowboy and Indian mysteries to urban vampire romps to family dramas set in Melbourne to novels about eighteenth-century… Continue reading
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How To Write A Manifesto
How To Create A Writing Manifesto What is a manifesto? A manifesto is a curation of succinct phrases that best represent your intentions, opinions and aspirations. Typically, they are presented in the form of a list. So, how would a… Continue reading
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Being an Active Member in Your Writing Community
Also Known as Good Writing Karma Let’s be honest, as creatives, we can sometimes become a little self-involved with our creative process, our routines and art-making. This seclusion and intense inward focus is often a necessary part of the practice,… Continue reading
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Interview with Crime Writer Gregory James
I first met Greg three years ago when we enrolled in the same Creative Writing course. Though our writing paths have since taken different directions, our mutual obsession for reading and writing crime fiction has remained the same. I had… Continue reading
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Five Things That Will Derail Your Writing
Five things that will zap my productivity and derail a writing day like nothing else* are a lack of sleep, technology/internet, excessive noise, not knowing what needs to be done next and skipping breaks. Lack of sleep This is a… Continue reading
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Batching Your Tasks
As mentioned in previous blogs, I’ve recently started my doctorate. I’m presently enrolled fulltime, but the completing of this research investigation is hardly the only project on my plate. (Who the heck has ONE project on their plate anyway?) Over… Continue reading
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