You can make anything by writing. C.S. Lewis A happy-winter-is-nearly-over greeting to you if you are in the southern hemisphere or...

Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships. David Alston When I started on my journey to become a...

The future of publishing is to have connection to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. Seth Godin I have...

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams I don’t know about you, but I always seem to find a...

Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an audiobook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!...

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare (Romeo and...

Every moment is a fresh beginning. T.S. Eliot The new year has started, which means new goals, new habits to build, old habits to break...

The Australian Women Writers Challenge begins again this year on 1 January 2021 and will conclude on 31 December 2021. You can sign up...

I will be taking a holiday break. My first post for 2021 will be available on Saturday 7 February. In 2021, a new blog article will...

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It...

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be...

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath I read an article about a writer whose goal was to receive 100 rejections in...

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. Helen Hanson Muse. A noun. There...

Reading a novel is a journey. A great novel can entice you into a wonderful new world filled with great characters, events and emotions....

There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and...

You don't find time to write. You make time. Nora Roberts 2020. 20 days. 20 thousand words. I do have an affiliation for numbers that...

A short story is a love affair; a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Lorrie Moore As an emerging...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.  John Donne Throw the confetti. Ring...

I have spent the last three months plotting and planning my first novel. If you have read my past posts, you will know that my original...

One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there. (Martha...