If you go back a year or two, every single piece of writing advice you could find was summed up in these three words: Platform, platform, platform. You want to get published? Build a platform. You want an agent? Build a platform. You want a contract? Build a platform. You get the idea. It was […]
Let’s Talk About Goals (And Why We Fail To Reach Them)
I often harp on the importance of setting writing goals over here at the blog and often push the idea that if you set specific goals, you can achieve anything you set out to do. But it isn’t always that easy. I know the experts all agree that writing down your goals is the best […]
Preemptively Defeat Your Distractions Before You Start Writing
Hey, it’s that time of day (or most likely night) again. You know, when you go into your isolation chamber and get ready to work on your current masterpiece. If you’re anything like me, however, sometimes it can be difficult to get started. Distractions are everywhere and I’m convinced that the outside world is conspiring […]
Fourth Quarter News, Updates and Goals
And just like that, 2015 is 3/4 of the way over. It’s been a pretty cool year so far. I launched Write Good Books, became a dad for the third time, published my first novel, did my first convention (as a presenter). Pretty cool when I look at it that way. If I have one […]
Keeping busy chasing the dream
Dreams are what keep us alive. Once you stop dreaming–once you no longer have anything to shoot for–you stop living. Anyone reading this blog knows that my goal (my “dream”, if you will) is to make it as a professional writer. Anyhow, in a recent post I talked about my writing goals for the rest […]
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 […]
The First Hundred Posts
And just like that, this is my 100th post since I started Write Good Books. Happy anniversary to the site. I set out with two big goals in my mind when I started the site. The first was to present a fun (and hopefully educational) blog for writers who haven’t quite yet made it and […]
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