I wouldn’t really say this is a New Year resolution, more like a recurring challenge that I win and lose year after year on a month by month basis. The last few months I have been going through another bout of nail and cuticle picking. If you are not familiar, it is the equivalent to…
It seems like everyone is talking about plus size yoga these days. Well it is the new year and while it is in the forefront for the beginning of the year it is not forgotten throughout the year either. Many of us have known for over a decade that plus size yoga was hot but…
Most of us are probably starting the New Year full throttle with new ideas and writing goals. Here are a few tips to think about as you create your writing resolutions: Challenge Yourself Let’s say you wrote 50,000 new words last year. This year, up the ante — try 55,000, 60,000, etc. If you submitted…
When you are first going out with someone, you want to know everything about them: where they went to school, their favorite meal and even what sports team they root for. That kind of enthusiasm should be carried over into the formation of your fictional characters by creating a character fact checker. In a much…
No matter what size you wear, shopping can be an utter nightmare. It is even worse when you are buying clothing online, trying to figure out whether a certain type of dress flatters your figure or a pair of jeans is fitted without cutting off circulation in your legs. The measurements of apparel sizes vary…
Ready. Set. Novel! is the book for you if you are in search of your next novel idea, or have a hint of a concept but are looking to develop it further before you set fingers to keyboard. Co-authored by Chris Baty, Lindsey Grant and Tavia Stewart-Streit, three of the brains behind National Novel Writing…
Hi! I’m Lea Wait. In 1998 I left the corporate life and moved to Maine to write fiction full-time. At first I spent most of my time cleaning and arranging a family home no one had lived in full-time for twenty years, and taking care of my disabled mother. And, of course, writing. I felt…
When Joan Didion nears the end of a novel, she sleeps in the same room as it. Stephen King has noted that he believes there is a creative link between writing and sleeping. One of my writing teachers said that when she has difficulty coming up with titles, she reads the manuscript before going to…