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Write Every Day (More or Less)

August 20, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

I’m tempted to write another “look at me, I’m so busy” post, but I’ll spare you the pain of having to read that. Instead I want to talk a little about what kind of writing I do on those “look at me” days. No matter how busy (or flat out exhausted) I maybe be, I […]

Declutter Your Writing

August 18, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

Declutter your writing. Kick the unnecessary stuff out of your fiction.

We’ve got a pretty small house. And with three young kids, it’s full of stuff. And by that I mean I’d post a picture of our living room floor, but that might give you the impression that I live in a family of hoarders. Fortunately, my wife has taken on the task of decluttering. It’s […]

Feeling Overwhelmed?

July 7, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

It's okay to feel a little overwhelmed with writing, but don't forget what you're working so hard for.

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 […]

Staying positive when things are crazy

June 23, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

Staying positive when things are crazy

So, yeah…the baby and the one-year-old (and sometimes the three-year-old) bawled all evening while my wife and I tried to take turns watching them while the other worked frantically on cleaning up the kitchen and picking up the million or so toys that keep mysteriously finding their way out of the kids’ rooms. And the […]

3 quick marketing things to do if you only have 15 minutes

April 28, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

3 things to do if you only have 15 minutes to write

I used to think if I didn’t have at least two hours of uninterrupted time to put away for writing that it wasn’t even worth taking the time to try for the night. My, how things have changed. On weekends, it’s not unusual to reserve a two or three hour block and get stuff done, […]

5 Things You Need to do RIGHT NOW if You Want to Start Writing

March 24, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

This post is for the person who has always wanted to write but hasn't started yet.

This post is for the person who has always wanted to write but hasn’t started yet. Or the person who might have started writing something a couple of times, but never actually finished a short story. Or maybe even for the person who casually writes fiction, but hasn’t gotten serious about it yet. It’s five […]

Keeping your eye on the ball

March 17, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

Our third child was born a few days ago, and yesterday we brought home our lovely little daughter. The miracle of life never ceases to amaze me. But no matter how busy life continues to be, writing remains a high priority to my family. So tonight, we put aside 45 minutes (from 7:45 – 8:30) […]

Balancing writing with real life

March 10, 2015 By: Jason Bougger

So the exciting news is that my wife and I are expecting a baby girl any day now. With two young children and another one the way, it’s safe to say we’ll be pretty busy for the next, oh I don’t know, twenty years or so. But in the meantime, the next few weeks are […]

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