All Entries Tagged With: "write"
Want To Be, But Not
I want to be able to fly a helicopter but I don’t go around telling people I’m a helicopter pilot. There’s a good reason for that: I can’t fly a helicopter. I know what you’re thinking: I’m just being hard on myself; I probably can fly a helicopter, but just not as well as I’d [...]
My Christmas Writing Projects
I have written novels, but please don’t expect a Christmas card from me. They’re just too hard. I would rather stare at an empty screen awaiting a first page of a novel than look at a blank Christmas card. “The message inside this card is blank.” Sod that. If I see that on the reverse [...]
Mr Prolific
This is a hats-off to Tumblemoose. I think regular readers will have noticed that Alaskan George posts his blogs the same time every week, month in month out. All are very well-written, entertaining, informative, and concern topics highly relevant to both the aspiring and established writer. This man is prolific. Especially when you consider he [...]
Writing Taboos
Is there anything you won’t write about? Name a topic, and there will be numerous websites dedicated to it. Many aren’t exactly mainstream. Of course, some will be written by amateurs, but there will be many others that employ the skills of a professional writer. Would you, for example, write articles about how anorexics can [...]
Miserable Old Bugger
It is commonly reported that novelists come up with story ideas by asking “What if …?”. Actually, it doesn’t help with producing story ideas; it just provides a way of focusing a general feeling that an idea may be useful into a sales pitch you might throw at a potential publisher. I’m 44 years old [...]
Writing Underwater
Not literally, of course. What idiot would try that? I am referring to a quote I read over twenty years ago which has stuck with me. I was pretty certain it came from a book on runes, so I searched online just now and it did indeed pop up on a runes website as an [...]
Don’t Give Up The Day Job
I was watching Steven Seagal: Lawman the other night. In case you don’t know, Steven Seagal: Lawman is a documentary following Seagal’s exploits as a deputy sheriff in the Jefferson Parish County Sheriff’s Department in Louisiana where he has worked for the past 20 years – that means before and throughout his time as a [...]
The Myth of Achievement
The most recent blog by Tumblemoose highlighted the need to keep your dedication to the writing cause alive and kicking. Advice of this sort is always timely. The writing profession is a rollercoaster. Successes and failures intermingle. We should all be accepting of this fact; a fact that permeates every aspect of our lives. However, [...]
The Oil Tanker Approach to Novel-Writing
It can be enormously difficult finding the time to write when it’s “just a hobby”. Your nearest and dearest may not understand your desire to lock yourself away and make things up about fictional characters instead of spending quality time with real-life people. Sometimes it’s not easy finding the time to write even when it’s [...]
Finger on the Trigger
Anyone who sits down to write for hours on end because they cannot break from their beloved creative writing project, or because they have a client deadline to meet, will be painfully aware of the exquisite agony that comes from maintaining certain positions for too long. Working on a laptop can create different issues to [...]
Write Distraction Free With Q10
Finding ways to type without distractions has become a huge challenge for many writers. While trying to keep organized, getting our work done and do it right, we often feel too overwhelmed by our constant need to perform well. Writers not only battle time, space and mind to put pen to paper or finger to [...]
Proposing For A Job – Freelance Writing Guide
In my last post I touched on the subject of queries to find work as a freelance writer. This post is yet another one in my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers. While queries are more used to apply for jobs that aren’t advertised, we also need to have some guidelines we can follow to [...]
