When you sit down to do something creative, one of two things is likely to happen: a) You have the Mojo b) You don't You know what the Mojo is, and you know when you have it. This is when you're writing the penultimate chapter of your book, the one ...

Styled in the post title as it is on the book cover. Nobody wants to read your sh*t is a new book from Steven Pressfield, author of the War of Art . The book is a fast-paced pseudo-biography chronicling Pressfield's life as he progressed from advertising copy writer to novelist, ...

When it comes to writing, staying motivated, etc. I think it's pretty helpful to follow other writers and hear what they have to say. As of today, there are three main sites / sources I follow regularly, where by regularly I mean I read or listen to nearly everything they ...

This first week I've tried something that I never did on that old blog, the one that almost killed me. I've written an entire week's worth of posts in one day, but I'm not going to post them all at once. Rather, I'm going to trickle these bad boys out ...

Last fall (2015) I heard about NaNoWriMo . It may have been for the first time, or not. I don't know, and it doesn't matter. This time I did it. I had been dabbling with a book idea in September or October. Before that, I had been making some maps. ...