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When the Internal Editor Comes Out to Play, Shut It Up
We’ve all done it. We finally have the time to write, and we pull out our computer or our notebook, and we’re staring at a white screen or a white page, and our head is full of…nothing. Some call it writer’s block. I call it internal editor block. One of the biggest...
9 Best Tips for Becoming a Focused Writer
Writing is one of those professions that you typically do from the comfort of your own home. I rarely get out of my house or, even, the room I’ve set aside for my writing—which is a small sitting area in my bedroom. Every now and then I’ll get a wild hair and go for a...
When Are We a Legitimate Writer?
We have this crazy expectation in our minds about what it looks like to be a writer. It means standing (or sitting—though I hope not!) at our computers all day and producing great pieces of literature several times a year. It means the only thing we do is focus on...
Let’s Stop Apologizing for Our Creative Work
As parent writers, we can often feel like we have to apologize for the work we do. Because work is taking us away from our children and our families, and it’s cutting into the time that we might spend together, and it’s distracting us from the thing we’re supposed to...
How to Know You’re a Writer: Just Do the Work
It’s not easy to call ourselves what we really are: writer. Mostly because there are so many things we think we have to do first. We have to get a book deal, with a large publisher. We have to get a thousand or ten thousand followers. We have to make it to a...
How Do I Do It All? I Don’t.
The most asked question I get when I tell people I'm an author who is also the mom of six children is this: "How do you do it all?" [Tweet "The important truth we have to learn when we’re writers who are parents: We can’t do it all."] I mean, we can try. But we’re...
How to Collect Stories From an Everyday Life
We have such a vault of stories as parents. Every day we are interacting with our kids, and we are listening in on conversations, and we are growing more and more as storytellers, because we get to be immersed in stories all the time. I only have to take a look around...
Write a GREAT Book Even When Your Time is Limited
