So it’s a new month. And, really, it’s a great month. September is one of those where the heat finally starts fading away and the awesomeness of fall starts creeping in, although in this part of the state, we had a pretty nice August with lots of days in the 70s and 80s. Anyhow, I […]
One Big Goal to Reach by the End of the Year
I say over and over how important it is to set concrete written goals with a deadline if you want to achieve success. The problem is I don’t always follow my own advice. That’s not entirely true; I do set daily and weekly writing goals, but I often get so caught on up the short-term, […]
Feeling Overwhelmed?
In a recent post at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog, Patricia Stoltey asked: What if You Want to Quit Writing? She asks in the article, What if you haven’t achieved as much as you’d hoped, or worse, you’re just beginning and are feeling overwhelmed and suicidal? While I rarely, if ever, feel anything remotely […]
Looking Ahead: My writing goals for the next six months
Before I started Write Good Books, I kept a daily blog on my author site. One of my regular gimmicks there was to begin every month with a post listing my goals for the month and ending every month with a progress report on whether or not I reached those goals. That feature didn’t carry […]
A goal without a ________ is just a daydream.
Regular readers of this site will know that I like to preach the importance of setting concise, written goals, both in the short-term and long-term. I personally write best if I set a daily writing goal, whether that be a word count, a scene, a blog post, or whatever. I also set monthly and yearly […]
Overwhelmed? Don’t be.
Doesn’t it seem like there aren’t enough hours in the day to do…well, anything? I was on the phone the other day and I casually mentioned that I spend around three hours a day writing. Three hours! Wow, you’re writing all the time. To which I replied, “Actually, I’m not writing at all.” Now, obviously […]
Three things I did this week to help advance my writing career
Writing is two things: The part time job that doesn’t pay you The full time job that goes home with you and consumes every thought in your head Now, I’m not here to complain about these things; they go with the territory. But trying to build your writing career really does take an insane amount […]
No Excuses
I still remember something that happened at a writing conference I attended a few years ago. When asked what the most important thing an aspiring writer can do, one of the panelists answered: “Cancel Facebook.” A few people in the crowd chuckled, but one of the other panelists disagreed, saying that you need the social […]
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