To Plodding!
I just had a conversation with another author that might encourage you: Me: How is the writing? Him: Slow but steady. Me: Slow and steady finishes books. Remember, you are building muscles like you would if you were training in a marathon. At first you'll ache all over and feel like you'll die after a mile. Eventually you won't even bat an eye at doing a 13-mile run in writing. Just keep going. :) Him: It feels like dying. Plodding through the first 100 yards. Many muscles to
Tips from a First-Timer to a Writer's Conference
I've always been a writer. It has been only in the last year, however, that I've been taking the gift/job/calling to write seriously. Currently, I'm in the extraordinary position of being paid to write a book (which will hopefully be due out later this year or early 2015). Being a first-time author though, I was in this place where "I knew I didn't know" but I wasn't quite sure what I didn't know. You know? It is that horrible place of knowing you are ignorant of critical inf
