Why You Must Persevere

Hemingway is famed for saying, “Writing is easy. You just sit at a typewriter and bleed.” But what if that isn’t enough? What if a publisher rejects a manuscript stained with eight pints of your blood? Do you drop to the ground, white as a sheet, and die? No. You […]

Fighting Discipline

How often do you think to yourself, “I’ll just watch one more episode…” And then it’s 3 AM, you’re sweating butter, and the credits to season seven of CSI are rolling? For most of us, it probably happens far more often than we would like. Procrastination is a major problem in […]

How to Write a Novel

A year ago, I had never written a novel. Oh, sure, I’d thought about it. I’d dreamed of it countless times. After all, isn’t that the goal of most writers? To pen a work of such length and magnitude that it leaves readers speechless? But for whatever reason, my hard drive is […]

Relishing the Difficulty

Blogs, despite their relative age in the internet world, have not been on my radar for long. I only discovered them about four years ago. One of the first I stumbled across was Jeff Goins, a man I had the pleasure of meeting at a conference several years ago. One […]