New comic on Writer Unboxed
Just posted a new comic about Writer Resolutions on Writer Unboxed, plus some excellent advice from one of my favorite authors, Juliet Marillier.
Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
Just posted a new comic about Writer Resolutions on Writer Unboxed, plus some excellent advice from one of my favorite authors, Juliet Marillier.
Thanks to Julie Williams (@JulieKWms2013) for being the 23,000th person to follow my @inkyelbows Twitter account! Julie is the author of two YA books. ESCAPING TORNADO SEASON: A Story In Poems (HarperCollins, 2004) is a novel in verse. IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (title may change) will come out from Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press in 2013 . . .
Originally posted in Writer Unboxed. See my other comics in Writer Unboxed.
I mentioned earlier that the members of my MiG Writers critique group have all posted their work goals for the coming year: here’s the post. Thanks to Christy Farley (whose YA novel GILDED debuts this November) for putting this post together! One of the reasons I’m so looking forward to the . . .
Too often, writing challenges end up in frustration and guilt rather than motivation. If you’re looking for a writing challenge but have limited or unpredictable time to write, try my 250, 500 and 1000 words/day challenge. And if you’re on Facebook, you can encourage and commiserate with other writers on the 250/500/1000 . . .
Originally posted in Writer Unboxed. See my other comics in Writer Unboxed.
I used to set ambitious New Year’s goals every year (“I’m going to write 2000 words a day, every day!”) but then get discouraged when I inevitably realized that, once again, I had set a goal or goals that were unrealistic. Or that had originally realistic but then got put . . .