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Five Tips for Turning Your Writing Goals Inside Out and Upside Down When You Feel Stuck
By Ann Kellett
Posted 12/16/2024
There’s a lot of great advice for the writing life: write every day, track your progress, write first and edit later, and so on.
But too often, the writing goals that served us well early on suddenly lose their magic. We find ourselves in a creative rut and even the best advice cannot seem to help us make the words flow.
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“Let’s Start at the Very Beginning…”
By Janet W. Butler
Posted 10/30/2024
Okay. At the risk of inflicting a massive earworm on you (!) or having you burst into song, let me issue an immediate disclaimer: this article isn’t going to be about “Do-Re-Mi.”
Or is it?
Consider this a love letter, if you will…to beginning again.
I’m not talking about rebooting a written work, or even an entire career. I’m not talking about taking stock of where you are in the process and deciding when, if, or how you want to proceed—or not. I’m talking about something way, way more basic.
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Crafting Goals and Business Plans for Novel Writers: Innovative Approaches and Best Practices
By Lisa Kober
Posted 12/16/2024
The journey of a romance novelist is a blend of creativity, passion, and determination. Like any artistic endeavor, it requires thoughtful goal-setting and structured business planning to thrive in the competitive publishing landscape. By taking a strategic approach to their career, romance writers can nurture their creative ambitions while ensuring sustainable business growth. Below are innovative and best practice strategies for creating successful goals and business plans, ensuring artistic fulfillment and financial success.
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Goal Setting: Work Smarter, Not Harder
By Diana Georgelos
Posted 12/16/2024
We, as story tellers, are well versed in the importance of setting goals for our characters. Every protagonist ideally has a goal (something they want to achieve) by the end of the story. Over the course of the story, a reader tracks the main character’s progress. They see if the hero/heroine is getting closer to or further away from achieving their goal. And at the climax, they see if the protagonist will finally achieved the goal or not.
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How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time
By Leslie J.Wyatt
Posted 12/16/2024
Assuming you’ve been able to carve out a dedicated writing time from your allotted twenty-four hours and figured out where you’ll do that writing, congratulations! Those crucial pieces of the overall picture are essential to writing success. With your when and your where now in place, it’s time to address some aspects of how to make the most of that precious window of creativity.
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