Go only where you feel cared for and supported; where everyone sees you as perfect.How are you doing in that department when it comes to you and your writing? Do you care for yourself enough to show up for your writing? Are you supportive of your passion for writing? Do you see yourself as perfect? Do you see your work as perfect?The relationship we have with our writing is reflective of our relationship with ourselves.Show up daily for your writing Light a candleAsk for guidance and …
Planning Your Plot
Finished one huge project. Cleaning and purging before beginning the next, I found perched on my computer screen a document I presented to a group of 300 corporate defense attorneys last year in Hawaii. Before I file it away, I thought I'd share a part of what I wrote for them (I adapted it back to writers where it initially began in part in Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple). Plot your story plan using the universal story form for structure and impact. The universal story form is the …
Mother Knows Best
Thanks to my mom, I have a new understanding of the plot work I do with writers. Leave it to my mother to be the one to teach me.In February, during a lull in preparing for 2 giant birthdays in one -- my mother's 90th and my sister's 60th, I made the Beginning section of a Plot Planner for my mother's blog.Never did I know how much angst that 8 X 11 piece of paper with a simple line and some sticky notes could cause.Rather than write the scenes she had come up with, my mother left the Plot …
Stamina for Writers
Received the following from a writer I'm working with:"Through our time together, I've come to realize that writing is all about stamina!! I had NO idea how much THINKING and CONNECTING goes into a story. I've done technical writing/reports/research for years but none compares with the effort necessary to craft a story. Novel writing is also much more intriguing and fulfilling." The writer is crafting a complicated murder mystery with many suspects, thus all the "thinking" and "connecting" he …
Shift from Wantabe to Writer
Comment from a writer I'm working with that shifted the same writer from resistance and excuses to consistent, daily writing and led to this post: "My identity is not wrapped up in the book. I am just the writer."This is big. From my work with writers, I've seen that the more invested the writer in the end result = creating the great American novel that will give them status and awards and attention and respect or, in other words, self-enhancement, are the writers who struggle the most and take …
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