Your Authentic Stories Plant the Seeds for More Stories
Write what you know is an old adage. And there are times, such as my equestrian lit works, where it weaves seamlessly into the work and the knowledge shines through. Then there are others where you either don’t want to have experienced or known what was...
Bringing Joy To Your Writing With Autistic Special Interests
Before I even knew I was autistic, I was including my special interests into my writing. Whether it was writing equestrian romances, especially those featuring predominantly English disciplines like show jumping and dressage, or working an entire content, magical, and...
Are you telling authentic stories?
Most fiction authors would probably shake their heads and say that their stories weren’t true. After all, myself and many of the people I know write about supernatural topics like magic or mythical far off kingdoms filled with elves and dwarves. Perhaps you...
Once You Find Resilience You Need To Look Beyond It
Resilience. The ability to recover from or adapt to misfortune or change. It’s been a buzzword for years, but especially gained traction in the initial weeks and months of the pandemic. As authors, we’ve been living resilience for years! Few other careers...
Counteracting the Isolation of Being An Author
For most fiction novelists, and nonfiction researchers, writing has often been a solitary occupation. Images of writers rooms for television or teams of people working on comics may make it seem like a social gathering. And yet, even then the writers still must come...
Twitter Has Lost Its Usefulness (New Policies)
Over the weekend Twitter rolled out a new policy–it will no longer allow links to other social media platforms or link aggregators (like linkertree) in tweets, in your bio/website space, or in your handle. Interestingly, when I looked at the help page to get you...
Rethinking the Wellness Wheel for Creativity
Depending on the source, the Wellness Wheel, which details areas of wellness, has six to eight sections. Spread out through physical and emotional health, social, spiritual, environmental, and occupational health, and sometimes intellectual health is added, these are...
Who is taking care of writers?
This Black Friday weekend my inbox was full of specials and sales. Take courses cheap. Learn how to be a best selling author. Get more marketing. Blah blah blah. The message was clear. Writers weren’t hustling enough, they weren’t marketing enough, and...