We all need a little writing inspiration. I hope you find some here.
I have followed Wendy Nguyen’s fashion blog for over a year now. Even though she is not plus size, she is definitely one of my favorite fashion bloggers. Recently Wendy and her Mystery Man spent many grueling hours putting together this sweet video about a pair of flats that just wants to fit into a…
Determine your goal for the week then post reminders of it around the house. I am totally serious about this. Do not worry what the rest of the household thinks. Right now, create at least eight mini banners with your goal on them and tape them around the house. Most writers have post-it notes in…
The Artist’s Way is for Writers too! Since I became serious about my writing back in 2006, I have met a lot of other writers through different ways: blogging, Facebook, writers’ groups and writers’ forums. Through this network, a certain book has kept popping up on my radar from time to time during the last…
For the last two months, I have come up against writer’s block which has been very frustrating. Some will argue that there is no such thing as writer’s block but I disagree. At least I know the etiology of my disease: the well has run dry. The last four months of last year I entered…
We have all been there. You are halfway through your work-in-progress (WIP). It was all going so well. The characters, the plot and all the elements that make a great novel were all cooperating, coming together and falling into place. Then all of the sudden you made a wrong turn and end up on a…
Beth Gutcheon, author of Gossip, is the critically acclaimed author of eight previous novels: The New Girls, Still Missing, Domestic Pleasures, Saying Grace, Five Fortunes, More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage and Good-bye and Amen. She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives…