I actually decided to bounce my previously planned blog post as I really wanted to reblog this piece by my friend Cat, discussing Book Piracy. Check it out and do look through her blog, it's full of great content. I'll be back on Monday with another #MondayMarketing post 🙂
This week's guest poster is my friend and author Andrew Kopecky, who discusses the topic of being yourself as a writer. Enjoy!
Today I want to talk about your responsibility as a writer. Hint: it's NOT just about writing books. I recently witnessed a young writer, in a Facebook group, ask for critique on her first chapter.  I and several other writers offered to read it. I made copious notes and sent it back, however she couldn't access my notes due to a "version" issue of the software we were using. However, other writers had better luck. After receiving her critique, she got angry, left a rather snarky message on the group and left. It showed little for the writer's maturity, when they lashed out and even less for their ability to accept criticism.
Today is International Women's Day and as such, I decided to speak to several female writers regarding the topic of online harassment, inappropriate messages and abuse. Â
I'm not sure what happened with today's guest poster, I haven't been able to contact her and have not received any communication so I thought instead of skipping today, that I would share this post from my friend and fellow writer Lorraine Ambers.
Sometimes we can be too close to our work. We live and breathe these worlds we create and if you've ever been stuck in a slump or finding your writing lacking, it could be that you are just in a little too deep.
Oh yeah, I’m still barely functioning so I’m sorry there’s no article from me. But I hate leaving this blog unattended. So I am sharing other people’s wisdom, enjoy this article by Robert Evenhouse at ParttimeNovel.com. Be patient with me, unless I suddenly drop dead, I will be back.
If you’ve been writing for a while, you’ve been there – the dark forest of writing.
There are no words here, no progress, only suffocating doubt and self-loathing. Every writer has experienced this before and just when we think this feeling will never surface it’s ugly face again, there it is.
Getting stuck is easy.
Stopping halfway through a book is normal.
But how do you get unstuck?
Are there elements that a writer can incorporate into their life so that these valleys are few and not as dark and deep?
Yes. Here are three ways to get inspired again. These will also reinforce the writer that is on the mountaintop of inspiration.
Austin Kleon is a connector. He repackages ideas and makes them accessible. One of his ideas is described in his book Show Your Work!. It is the idea of Scenius.Â
He claims…
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It's guest post time again. This week's guest poster is the wonderful Nicole Arnold who discusses developing a Writer identity. Enjoy!
I've been writing since I was 8 years old, so in that VERY long time. Over the years, you start to learn things about being a writer. So today's blog post is me sharing 10 things I've learnt.
No matter how old we get, there are still times we make mistakes and often punish ourselves for making them.Â
However, if we really want to be better, we need to start embracing those mistakes rather than seeing them as a type of failure.
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