motivation
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Writing is my something better to do
It’s November 1st, and all across the world, thousands of writers are sitting down and frantically banging out words in search of NaNoWriMo glory. If you are not familiar with it, NaNoWriMo is a month-long writing challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. There is a time limit and deadlines and you…
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Losers with Delusions of Writing
Not long ago, I was out with some writer friends and we got into a discussion about publishing. One friend talked about how he’d been pushed into submitting a story before he was ready to submit, and it had been accepted, and while he was excited and told everyone, it now embarrasses him to have…