Blogger: Wendy Lawton (Brand New Grandmother)
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: 63º and cloudy
I appreciate Michelle filling in for me yesterday and I love how she highlighted some of those delightful detours on the journey by reminding us of the surprise…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 11, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 1 Comment
Blogger: Michelle Ule
Location: NOT New Castle, Delaware where Wendy is busy with her brand-new first grandchild. (She will be back posting tomorrow.)
This week Wendy has been taking us through the heroic journey, likening novel writing and publishing to a grand endeavor.…
By Michelle Ule on Mar 10, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 4 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: 59º and sunny
As we continue talking about the writer’s journey let’s look at the second step.
Step Two: The Threshold
This is the jumping off point for the adventure. Once past this threshold, the hero…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 9, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life, query | 7 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
Weather: Warm 57º and sunny
Each time I approach my blog week, I try to think back to some of the concerns of the past few weeks to see if I can offer something of…
By Wendy Lawton on Mar 8, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 12 Comments
Blogger: Etta Wilson
Location: Books & Such Nashville Office
Weather: about 40 degrees
Like many of you I suspect, I’m wrapped up in the Winter Olympics. At a dinner party this past weekend, we had quite a discussion about what makes curling a…
By Etta Wilson on Feb 26, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Writing Life | 9 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Professional Tools
Writers need to keep up on the publishing market; a variety of tools help the author to be knowledgeable and “in-the-loop,” as they write and submit projects. These are…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Feb 17, 2010 in Blog, Writing Life | 3 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Zurakowski
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
As you know, there’s much more to writing these days than just producing a book. Some authors would claim that the writing is the easy part! The hard part of…
By Rachel Zurakowski on Feb 15, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Life | 11 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Wikipedia talks about “burnout” this way:
“The most well-studied measurement of burnout in the literature is the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Maslach and her colleague Jackson first identified the construct ‘burnout’…
By janetgrant on Feb 5, 2010 in Blog, Life, Publishers, Writing Life | 5 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
The same prisoner I wrote about yesterday was in solitary confinement the majority of his eight years as a Vietnam POW. He and other prisoners developed a “Morse” code…
By janetgrant on Feb 3, 2010 in Agents, Authors, Blog, Life, Writing Life | 8 Comments
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve found when dealing with long-term stress that the best posture for me to take is one of hopefulness and optimism but not unrealistic. In other words, it’s a…
By janetgrant on Feb 2, 2010 in Blog, Life, Writing Life | 9 Comments
