Box Your Can’t-Get-Started-Writing Blues

Box Your Can’t-Get-Started-Writing Blues

The most difficult problem you face in writing your book can be summarized in just two words.   Getting started.   You have a brilliant idea, of course, and an outline or some notes. Maybe even a chapter draft, or two. But now what?   If you are like most will-be...
Authors Have Entrancement on Their Side

Authors Have Entrancement on Their Side

People who are not — and do not want to be — authors, often make the mistake of imagining that those who are, and do, possess a super-human strain of self-discipline. A stellar character trait that they, alas, lack. But it isn’t true.   What authors,...
Books — Dripped, Not Written

Books — Dripped, Not Written

Books are not actually “written.”They are dropped onto the page, one drop at a time, one day at a time. -By authors who know that, very small increments of writing are what actually create a book. Over time.It’s like this. A cold morning in December,...