Some offers are just hard to believe, aren't they? The day I came up with the idea for a "progressive publishing program," I didn't believe it either. But here's a confession: I’ve always been something of a skeptic. As a small(er) babbler, I remember seeing the commercial for the Tootsie Roll pop and I determined to prove them wrong.
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Tillamook ice cream is one of the true pleasures of our moving to Portland. I know I risk outing myself as a closet ice-cream freak, but I don't care. The way they pack so much lactocine goodness into every delicious spoonful is enough to make me want to move here all over again, just to have the pleasure of realizing
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What is “success” as an author? This question has more answers than Carter has pills. (My grandpa liked to say this, which always made me feel badly for whoever Carter was. Who is Carter and why does he have so many pills?) Ah, this is great. I'm munching some popcorn Charlotte, my 5 year old, just brought me from her
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"Don't Use Writing to Get Love" The title comes from Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. Not a bad book, and several of her thoughts are useful. One is something I've seen in writers, especially of fiction, obviously because I've seen it in myself, this idea that we writers are curious creatures who can't live the way others do.
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As I get ready to launch Your Writers Group 2.0, the broader community/training site that's taken many months to produce, I've been researching a lot of great sites and programs for writing and generally thoughtful reading. There's a ton of great stuff out there for free. What I think is missing is balanced help on NOT publishing too soon–on writing,
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