Persona Voice Questions: 2
I wrote earlier about questions that have helped me think about voice over the years. (That was the original post on persona voice questions.) I know there are others I…
How to Get Unstuck
About 10 years ago, I came up with a list of questions to get me unstuck. Some of them are personal (so they wouldn’t apply). Some of them reference trademarks…
Writing is…
an experiment “I don’t see writing as communication of something already discovered, as ‘truths’ already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It’s like any discovery job;…
Perfect Your Writing Persona
Candace “Candy” Fleming did a webinar for the 12×12 challenge. One thing she said that really made me think–again and again–was that you need to “stake your identity” by building…
Bad Writing is Good
Bad writing is GOOD because bad writing is necessary. Writing isn’t perfect the first time. We have erasers, backspacing, delete, and reprints just because writing isn’t perfect. Anne Lamott says,…
Work Smarter
I was listening to an author (Jed Jurchenko) talk about writing and he said that writing is creative. Does anyone disagree with that? Yeah, me neither. Then he said that…
Consistency
Consistency is key. If you only write when you feel like writing, chances are you will never be an author. Most people don’t enjoy their jobs 100% of the time…
Brainstorming
I joined StoryStorm to get more good ideas. The month is almost over and I’ve done well with StoryStorm. Brainstorming: But if you didn’t join, that doesn’t mean you can’t…
When You Get Stuck
My son, who studied actuarial science and graduated with a degree in mathematics, is a full-time online author. In the last two years he has written over 3 million words.…
StoryStorm
Picture Book Idea Month has become Story Storm. TaraLazar.com. There is far more published there every day than you can imagine. If you can get through it all for this…