A recently over heard conversation went as follows: “I am writing a book. I’ve made a great start: I’ve numbered all the pages.” Consider the following: Countless people say they are going to write a book. Only a few ever begin the actual writing. If you have started writing a book you are in rare [...]

Do you feel guilty while wasting time during your writing day? Don’t. I’ve just read the results of a survey where workers across many different occupations indicated that the average worker wasted 1.7 hours per day while they were at work. That’s 102 minutes every day. And for that to be an average, some were [...]

Today’s quote about writing: “All the things we achieve are things we have first imagined and then made happen.” David Malouf, Australian writer Imagination is a powerful, essential, elemental, almost organic tool of the writer. It is the driving force behind all writers, especially writers of fiction. Without our imagination our stories cannot take shape, [...]

I had a fantastic day of writing today. I actually completely finished a whole chapter. Chapter 12 of my novel for children is now finished and it leaves the reader dangling ready to turn the page to the next chapter. I have been trying hard to finish each chapter on an exciting high like this, [...]

As a writer I have learned that I need to be very goal oriented. Setting firm goals for my writing keeps me on track. Setting firm goals keeps me accountable to myself. Setting firm goals helps me to track my progress. Setting firm goals keeps me focused and minimizes distractions. I’ve written about setting writing [...]