Are Your Writing Dreams Sitting on Hold?
The choices around publishing these days are probably some of the toughest choices a writer has to make. We’re all familiar with the first big choice between going the traditional publishing route or deciding to self-publish. However, even after that choice is made, many other choices follow. One of the biggest roadblocks to writers deciding […]
Do You Have to Be Traditionally Published to “Make It” as a Writer?
In 2015, I was still an unpublished writer. I had been querying for years with no success. I had sent out queries on three different novels and had queried so many agents I lost count of them all. I had rewritten my first chapters, my opening scenes, my first sentences, over and over and over […]
Want to Be a Writer? Get Ready to Feel Lonely and Misunderstood.
It’s hard to talk about what it means to be a writer to other people who are not writers. Because most of the time, they really, really don’t get it. When you tell someone who is not a writer that you’re writing a book they usually ask one of these types of questions: