by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
I dislike resolutions, but I do like setting goals. I know that June isn’t the popular month for setting goals that January is, but it’s a great time to do a mid-year checkup on our goals.
If we’re not where we want to be, my advice is to scrap the January goals completely and start fresh. Feeling forced to play catch-up is really unpleasant.Continue reading
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.
Romance Writing: Description: Choosing the Right Words: http://ow.ly/xKUfJ @taliaqui
How to Keep Your Writing in Your Over-the-Top Busy Life: http://ow.ly/xKTBQ @writeabook Continue reading
I’ve been reading students’ unpublished novels for a summer class I’m teaching alongside Nancy Zafris at Kenyon College in Ohio. Again and again, I see the same fundamental flaw: the characters refuse to get into trouble. This is understandable. Most of us – except for the hopelessly neurotic – are very good at avoiding trouble. This isn’t to say we run from challenges, but trouble itself we stay out of. If there are difficult people with whom we can’t get along, we either stay out of their way entirely or deal with them on a superficial level, being as outwardly courteous as we can stand. We do not take deliberate actions to sabotage our love lives or our careers. For the most part, we obey the law. We don’t embezzle funds or commit murder.
No one should get into trouble if there’s any way to avoid it. Trouble makes everyone unhappy. Trouble prevents us from self-fulfillment. Trouble causes stress and migraines. Trouble is just too much trouble.Continue reading
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
I don’t know if y’all operate the same way, but I will allow large projects that I know will be time-sucks slide for a while…years, usually…until I finally end up squaring my shoulders and attacking them with gusto.
So…I decided to start out my summer (it’s summer here in North Carolina, anyway) with a photo and scrapbook organizing project. This is the sort of project where there are drawers of loose photos from the 1960s, 1970s, and even unarchived family pictures from the early part of the 20th century. There are tremendous stacks of still-framed photos from many decades ago and from various branches of the family tree. And many, many pre-digital photos of my children in no order. Oh, and school papers of varying degrees of appeal and sentimental importance dating back to preschool (and my elder child is entering his senior year of high school this August).Continue reading
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.
Creating Matriarchies: http://ow.ly/xxbKI @mythcreants
Tips for writing villains–villain theory: http://ow.ly/xxa5H from Clever Girl Helps
Self-published authors: where you live doesn’t matter: http://ow.ly/xxbzr @chrisrobley
Why 1 Writer Isn’t Publishing Paperbacks: http://ow.ly/xxakH @MikeWellsAuthorContinue reading
