A Writer’s Journey

There’s the old saying, “Never judge a book by its cover”. Sage advice, if you ask me when judging people. However, I find myself very much judging a book by its cover, to gain some insight as to what the book is about. You’d be surprised to know that many authors do not choose [...]

I had my writer’s meetup yesterday, where a few of my fellow writers join together to share our work, critique, and sometimes endure some writer’s activities to spark something akin to creativity. I look forward to these times. In fact, early this year I dealt through a harrowing time with depression. I felt exhausted [...]

When I first started my writer’s group, there was little in the way of information on the Web to help me with conducting a meeting of writers. I had plenty of experience developing workshops, however, so I based most meeting outlines on that. I found a few challenges, however, such as being sure to consider [...]

A writer’s group provides an author inspiration, feedback from fellow writers, and provides a social community to which one can share their craft with others of like mind. You may find, however, there are no groups in your area. This article should help you form your own network, easily and without fuss.
Click here for more…. [...]

One tip many published authors have given is simply…. to write. The very act of writing, and writing regularly will help improve writing. This means you should find the means to get something down every day such as a blog, short story, or whatever medium you’re writing in, but to get something written every day.
I [...]

Last year I promised myself that I would get published. I didn’t specify as to what or even how I would reach this goal, but I did, in fact, get published. Being unclear, this endeavor didn’t pan out as much as I had hoped. I published, and received payment for some articles through Associated Content. [...]

I learned years ago that in the area I live in, if there wasn’t a group available for me to join, I’d simply start my own. So when I started looking around for a writer’s group to join, there was no big surprise that most of them are located near the city. (Washington D.C.) Baltimore [...]

When I started looking around for a writer’s group to join, there was no big surprise that most of them are located near the city. Washington D.C. and Baltimore had a few, yet most were an hour’s drive with traffic reminiscent of a high speed video game. More importantly, they were not here.
Luckily [...]