Recent Articles
On Eliminating the ‘This is Terrible’ Voice
There are so many negative voices a writer must face and overcome. Today I want to talk about how writers can eliminate the “This is Terrible” Voice. This is a persistent voice. That’s about the only good thing I can say about it, and only because persistent is a...
How to Battle the ‘Who Would Even Read This?’ Voice
Today I'd like to talk about how to battle the “Who Would Even Read This” Voice. This is a particularly annoying voice for those of us who write personal essays or memoirs, but it does occasionally hound fiction writers as well. The origin of this voice is usually the...
How to Slay the Annoying ‘I Can’t Do This’ Voice
If you missed last week's blog, I talked about four of the voices writers will hear in their career. I promised that I would talk about each voice in more detail, so today I’d like to approach, with caution, the I Can’t Do This Voice. This voice has many different...
On the Voices a Writer Must Battle
Today I wanted to talk about all the voices that writers must face. In the next several weeks, I’ll be breaking each of these voices down and sharing practical tips for how to abolish them. I say abolish, but I started this blog with the intention of telling you the...
On the Myth that Writing Comes Naturally
I used to think that writing came naturally to me. When I was in high school I won all sorts of awards for my writing. When I became an adult, those awards didn't stop coming, they just moved to the journalism sector. I was good at what I did. I didn’t really have to...
How to Persevere When You Feel Invisible
Last week I shared about how my video show is celebrating one whole year of production. It started out much different than it is now, but all the same, I haven’t amassed a whole bunch of followers yet. Truthfully, I had expected to be further along than I am. This...
When You Celebrate a Year of Invisibility
This week my video show, On My Shelf, is celebrating one year. If you were to look at followers and number of views and stats that all the business people tell us mean something important, you wouldn’t be able to tell that I’d been doing this for a year. As I crept up...
Write a GREAT Book Even When Your Time is Limited
