Taking a break is very important for productivity and to regroup and reassess your priorities as a writer. And there is no better time than close to the end of the year and around Christmas time to start assessing your priorities. But I suggest that you take a few days off before you tackle this…
It can be hard to get some writing done in December. However, it is essential to your success that you keep writing and that you keep your writing time sacrosanct, even during the holidays. One way that I learned to do that is by making sure that my writing time is still in place in…
The Anxiety of Having a Full time Day Job and Find Time to Write A full-time day job is one whose primary meaning is derived from the fact that it allows you to work on your writing career and still support yourself. However, it is very difficult to wear different hats all the time, isn’t…
MEET JACK L. BRODY, AUTHOR OF THE MORONI DECEPTION (First Published on Blogcritics) He’s a writer, ex-military, and an avid traveler. After his Army stint and then deciding to pass on law school, he went to film school, wrote screenplays, and held a number of jobs which ran from everything to working for a newspaper…
Meet Award-winning author Kai Strand The World of Ink Network will be touring award-winning author Kai Strand’s juvenile fantasy adventure book, THE WISHING WELL: Another Weaver Tale, published by Guardian Angel Publishing and her juvenile contemporary fiction novel, SAVE THE LEMMINGS, published by Featherweight Press throughout October and November 2012. About The Wishing Well: Molly…
Is Monkey Mind Wrecking Your Writing Productivity? Monkey mind occurs when you can’t focus on one thing for too long. Monkey mind describes a mind that jumps from thought to thought like a monkey jumps from tree to tree. The monkey mind is not content with existing in the present moment, but rather is constantly…
Working in a State of Flow By Irene S. Roth Have you ever been so engaged in an activity that you lost track of time or even your surroundings? A bomb could have gone off and you wouldn’t have noticed anything except the task at hand? Wouldn’t it be nice to write this way during…
Hey there fellow writers, I can’t believe half the year has gone by! It has really flown by for me. Since this is the half mark point of the year, I usually sit down and evaluate my progress with my three major writing goals for the year. At beginning of the year, I sat down…
Hello fellow writers! Its been a while since I wrote consistently on this blog. Call it a change of perspective or whatever. I decided about a year ago to really focus on my writing. Because of this, my blogs got second dibs while I wrote a lot of articles for publication and books. I also…
Create a zero tolerance towards desk clutter! One way to be an effective writer is to get organized. The first place that you should organize is your desk. Many writers can waste up to an hour or more a day searching for things on their desks. Some things are never found. They have to be…