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Tips & Answers to QsA NOD TO THE MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT ON WRITINGEudora Welty“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute “Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, “Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which “Human life is fiction's only theme.” Don't Forget to Sign Up For TheBoroughs Book Club
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Blank SlatePromises, promises. We all make them around the turn of a new year. Call them resolutions, a new way to do the same things, employing better organizational skills, or digging into your stack of cookbooks and promising to be more creative with your meal choices. All of it adds up to an attempt to improve things in your life. What have you promised yourself about your writing? Your authorship? Your business acumen? Don’t roll your eyes. It’s past time to make changes, even if things are going well. Especially if things are going well. What are you doing right? Can you do it better and take your writing, authorship, and the business of you to the next level? Have you defined your objectives, benchmarks, and goals? If not, it’s a good place to start. Goal oriented and organized is anathema to some artists. But when things aren’t going well, bemoaning one’s fate never changes it. Don’t think of EVERYTHING you have to do, and then give up because it overwhelms. Break it down into its component parts and start with one small thing. Over time, the building blocks you have laid in place make a strong foundation from which to springboard to bigger and better. Now, what’s your next book and/or series going to be about? |