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Organizing Your Ideas

Last week, we talked about having a container(s) for your ideas so they don’t evaporate or move on to another creative soul ready to receive them because you are not in a position to use them immediately. The logical next step is to have an organizing principle for...

Have an Idea Container

The Craft of Writing

Ideas are fleeting. Why is that? How is it that we can receive or—zowie!—be hit by what we feel is a fabulous idea but then, later, cannot even remember it, as if it simply floated away? It’s too much to consider, really. It’s a shame at how much goodness and...

Point of View – Another Look

The Craft of Writing

CONVERSATIONS Around the Writer’s Table was a monthly tele-call for authors that coach and editor Gina Edwards hosted in 2015. On two of the most popular calls, Gina and fellow editor Heather Whitaker discussed point of view. We talked about the different forms...

Refill Your Creative Well

The Writer's Life

Last week, I wrote about post-publication depression, then received feedback from several authors who have indeed faced something that feels like depression after they finished writing their books or published them. This week, I offer an alternative view, a reframing...

Is Post-Publication “Depression” Real?

The Business of Writing, The Writer's Life

Culling my files recently for idea-notes, I came across an unpublished article that I wrote nearly three years ago. In our last blog post (My Book, My Daughter), artist and author Licia Berry shared her story of nearly abandoning her book after publication, so I was...