Deadlines vs. Goal Lines: The Emotional Divide
There once was a plot line hard hittin But the writer was best known for quittin’ “No time to write,” she did fret No one objected, I bet So she never got anything written. Ahem. So. Now that these...
View ArticleI Prefer My Rubber to Meet the Road
We are about to enter the season of heightened expectations and goal-setting, so I’ll offer a story which I hope you’ll find helpful, then draw some lessons for the writing life. Years ago, I was...
View ArticleSolving a First-World Blogging Problem
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) talking to journalists. The person in background appears to be chemist Linus Pauling (1901-1994). For some time now, WU has been struggling with a challenge....
View ArticleThe Crushing Weight of Expectations
Rock Slide by ActiveSteve (Flickr) It is a truth rarely acknowledged that the act of writing often comes with an entire catalog of weighted expectations attached to it. For published writers, it is SO...
View ArticlePressure, Perception, and Probability: The Holy Trinity That Stymies the New...
Today’s guest is Grace Wynter, a blogger and writer of romance and women’s fiction. Grace spends much of her non-writing time tinkering with WordPress websites and working on completing her...
View ArticleTrack Your Word Count and Progress with Scrivener
2016 has been a busy year. My youngest son graduated from high school, my husband retired from the Air Force, family flew in for the big events, and we recently moved from Boston to Sacramento. By...
View ArticleHow to Write While Not Writing
Fifteen years ago, I made a commitment to pursue my dream of becoming a published author. This commitment was backed by a promise to write every day. The next morning, I woke before sunrise and got...
View ArticleUn-resolutions: A New Approach for the New Year
The promise of a new year usually inspires me to cobble together a list of writing resolutions for the months ahead. But as the possibilities of 2020 glitter before us, I find myself in the mood for...
View ArticleA New Year Brings Fresh Author Envy
“Okay, I’m a little, teeny bit jealous of a few writers,” I admitted to another debut author via the anonymity of Facebook Messenger. “I am SOOOO jealous,” she typed back. Behind the confessional...
View ArticleDeadlines vs. Goal Lines: The Emotional Divide
There once was a plot line hard hittin But the writer was best known for quittin’ “No time to write,” she did fret No one objected, I bet So she never got anything written. Ahem. So. Now that these...
View ArticleI Prefer My Rubber to Meet the Road
We are about to enter the season of heightened expectations and goal-setting, so I’ll offer a story which I hope you’ll find helpful, then draw some lessons for the writing life. Years ago, I was...
View ArticleSolving a First-World Blogging Problem
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) talking to journalists. The person in background appears to be chemist Linus Pauling (1901-1994). For some time now, WU has been struggling with a challenge....
View ArticleThe Crushing Weight of Expectations
Rock Slide by ActiveSteve (Flickr) It is a truth rarely acknowledged that the act of writing often comes with an entire catalog of weighted expectations attached to it. For published writers, it is SO...
View ArticlePressure, Perception, and Probability: The Holy Trinity That Stymies the New...
Today’s guest is Grace Wynter, a blogger and writer of romance and women’s fiction. Grace spends much of her non-writing time tinkering with WordPress websites and working on completing her...
View ArticleTrack Your Word Count and Progress with Scrivener
2016 has been a busy year. My youngest son graduated from high school, my husband retired from the Air Force, family flew in for the big events, and we recently moved from Boston to Sacramento. By...
View ArticleHow to Write While Not Writing
Fifteen years ago, I made a commitment to pursue my dream of becoming a published author. This commitment was backed by a promise to write every day. The next morning, I woke before sunrise and got...
View ArticleUn-resolutions: A New Approach for the New Year
The promise of a new year usually inspires me to cobble together a list of writing resolutions for the months ahead. But as the possibilities of 2020 glitter before us, I find myself in the mood for...
View ArticleA New Year Brings Fresh Author Envy
“Okay, I’m a little, teeny bit jealous of a few writers,” I admitted to another debut author via the anonymity of Facebook Messenger. “I am SOOOO jealous,” she typed back. Behind the confessional...
View ArticleJoy to the (Writerly) World—Post-Pub Edition
It’s the holiday season! I seem to have created a tradition of sorts with my last few December posts here on WU, dedicated to my feelings about the prior writing year and the year ahead. Last...
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