There’s Nothing Divine about Dissatisfaction
Jeff shares task management tips for artists.
Tag: advice
10 Tips on Landing an Agent at a Writers’ Conference
I recently wrote an article for the Writers Digest Guide to Literary Agents blog. Here’s an excerpt followed by a link to the rest of the post.
When I was ready to seek representation, I chose not to approach agents in the usual way—by email query—even though most agents prefer that method....
5 Tips for Turning Your Teen Turmoil Into a Novel
HarperCollins Canada asked me to write a post for their official YA Blog, HCC Frenzy. Here’s a short except, followed by a link where you can read the whole article.
There’s no way around it: high school hurts. The good news? Pain is precious to writers. It motivates us, inspires us, fuels...
On Doubt, Fear, and Being a Professional Artist
ON GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS
During a writing day, I inevitably hit a point of diminishing returns. A point where any work I do will likely have to be redone the next day–because I’m too mentally, spiritually, or intellectually tired to continue doing good work. Usually it happens around 3PM–but...
3 Uncommon Sense Tips for Winning #NaNoWriMo
There’s only one week left of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo)—a crazy artistic marathon challenge in which writers commit to writing a 50,000 word novel, from initial idea to finished first draft manuscript, in thirty days.
For those of you who are participating in NaNoWriMo, this...
Process Peek: Do You Outline?
A friend asked me this past weekend: “Do you outline?”
I love talking about the writing process, but I can never seem to come up with a straight answer to this question. Generally, I find that the person asking has one of two motivations: 1.) They loathe outlining and want permission to avoid it...
- 1
- 2