I’m writing this on the train back to Amsterdam from Paris. Well, actually I’m on a train from the Dutch city of Breda, which I got to from a bus I caught in Brussels due to a train strike in Belgium. Anyway, my long journey back home from my creative retreat is...

I'll start this week's post by saying that my desk is bare, my office relatively clean, and a giant purple 3-ring binder is filled with the pages of my printed chronology for my work-in-progress. That can only mean one thing—I reached my stretch goal of completing the...

This week was all about the work-in-progress. In fact, my push to finish curating archived material was borderline obsessive. But more on that later. I'll start by sharing how I did on my writing goals: Writing Goals from Last Week: Devote a minimum of 6 hours on my...

Despite this being a kind of crazy week—my birthday, Halloween, catching a cold—it was surprisingly productive. As I did last week, I'll start by reporting in on my goals so you can see how I did. Writing Goals from Last Week: Devote a minimum of 6 hours on my WIP -...

I thought I'd start this post by reporting in on how I did with my writing goals for the week. After all, if I don't circle back to measure / reflect, there's really no point in setting them. So, here goes: Writing Goals from Last Week: Play with developing some...

It occurred to me that one of the most helpful things I could do as part of my mission to encourage writers and would-be authors to believe in their stories, commit to their craft, and put themselves out there would be do put my money where my mouth is. Enter: WRITER...

After spending the past several years researching, writing, drafting, and revising, an author I work with is ready to send her manuscript out into the world in the hopes of finding an agent. The ultimate dream is finding the perfect publishing home for her YA novel...

I'm not one much for resolutions, but I do love the idea of being reflective about what's passed and intentional about what is to come. At the start of 2013, I wrote a blog post in which I declared my "word" for the year: Evolution. In last year's post, I wrote that:...

Many writers dream of penning and publishing a book someday, but few people very publicly declare their goal and then allow the rest of us to watch their journey as they go after their dream. But that's exactly what life coach Andrea Owen did back in January 2012 when...

Here's a truth about me: I've never missed a writing or work deadline. Not once. And only one time in my ten-plus year career as a solopreneur have I asked for a work extension -- it was only for three days and I could have made it without the cushion, but I knew they...

Life imitates art, so the saying goes. I haven't given that notion much thought until now, but it seems like all of my worlds -- my creative world, my professional world, my personal world -- are suddenly tied together in the most interesting ways. As George Costanza...