Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Because, hey, even if you don’t celebrate December 25th as a holiday, you might at least be lucky enough to have it off from work, or be taking at least a few hours off to hang out with the family. And even if you…
Do You Have A Lucky Charm?
Do you have a magic trick to get your writing started each day? Do you have a specific routine that you must follow before you can settle down to work? Do you have a lucky charm on your desk? A piece of jewelry you must be wearing? Some kind of…
I Am Woman, Hear Me Blog
You may have heard, it’s been all over the internet today– in the freelance writing world, at least–our buddy James from Men with Pens is, in fact, not a man at all. She is a single mother who was driven to writing under a pseudonym as a means for putting…
Do You Write With Conviction?
It’s hard to be a writer. You spend your day staring at a blank computer screen searching for the words to fill it. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a novel, poetry, an article for a magazine, a webpage, advertising copy, white pages … all writing is a risk. A…
Why a Copywriter Needs to Tell Stories
Do you know the most powerful tool a writer has in his or her arsenal? Telling a story. I’m not talking about a fairy tale that starts with “Once upon a time” and ends with “happily ever after.” I’m talking about the kind of story that immediately makes your readers…
Joyful and Jubilant
Hey, folks, I’m going to have a post up at Joyful Jubilant Learning on Wednesday, December 2nd … be there, or be square! The month’s theme? Returning Home for the Holidays.
Back to Essentials
Joanna wants to know which post of 2009 I would consider essential? As in, showing the very essence of my blog, as well as being essential to my readers? Man, I hate making decisions. I can almost never state that any one thing is my favorite. I can pick favorite…
Are You Doing What You Love?
We’ve all heard the platitudes. “Life is too short.” “Live the dream.” “Carpe Diem, Sieze the Day.” But have you really thought about what that means? One of my co-workers at my day job … a woman I’ve worked with for fourteen years … died on Saturday from a sudden…
Do Stories need Puzzles?
Here’s the other thing about my Dad that confuses me. (Well, there’s more than two, but I’m trying to focus, here.) When he reads for pleasure, he likes mysteries, or those adventure kinds of stories where the hero saves the world because he uncovered the enemy’s secret plan just in…
Back to Basics
I decided that the best way to get back into the mind set of writing was to … well, write, of course … but not just any writing. So many things have been turned upside down these last few weeks. First, finding someplace to live, then packing a house full…