Know and Accept Your Way of Creating

The Craft of Writing, The Writer's Life

What is your process, your style, and your rhythm? Get clear in your own mind how you create. Then accept your way of working—or change it if it is not effective. Do you remember, in school, when the teacher could not be satisfied with you just showing up, but she had...

The Pros and Cons of Working with a Publisher

The Business of Writing

As I have embarked on my journey toward certification as a creativity coach, I have been fortunate to encounter some massively creative and interesting individuals, including multi-talented Doreen Poreba, a fellow creativity coach who is also an author, public...

The Nature of Process

The Writer's Life

In this guest blog post, Anita Rose Merando examines the creative processes of singing and writing, and the random, sometimes fickle and unforeseen ways they flow from us and into their final form. The Nature of Process It is not glamorous or exciting, grabbing...

FAPA President’s Awards Announced

Uncategorized

This morning, the Florida Authors and Publishers Association released the complete list of 2014-2015 winners of their President’s Awards. Members of Tallahassee Writers Association, authors who are in Tallahassee’s Southern Yellow Pine Publishing family,...

The Magic of Believing for Writers

The Writer's Life

Over the next few months, we will feature several guests discussing creativity and how it affects their lives, their work, their artistry, and their writing. In the first in this series, our guest is Bekah Keyes, the author of “The Digging Deeper Series.”...