Novembers aren’t for the faint of heart
How the insanity of NaNoWriMo actually keeps me sane Let’s face it, the organisers of the annual writing challenge NaNoWriMo did a brilliant job in chosing Novembers for it. Especially…
NaNoWriMo 2016: Half time!
… or: Right on track – just about The NaNoWriMo statistics are delightfully cruel and insightful. They are my prime motivation to keep going, and most writers are pushed to…
November’s frenzy: NaNoWriMo 2016!
… and why every writer should use NaNoWriMo to kickoff their big projects Hi guys, on a whim and even without FIRST hitting the word count of 1700 daily, every…
No, I don’t have time for “a” coffee …
A chat about the difficulty to protect “office-hours” (includes NaNoWriMo and coffee) Being a writer surrounded and held by a network of friends who are or are not writers is…
Must-haves of a writing indie …
… as I see it 😉 Every writer who takes her craft seriously will have several “must-haves”, things she needs in order to function. These things can be technical, surroundings,…
Setting is not paint by numbers!
… and neither is it a photograph Regardless of genre: Setting is atmosphere, texture, mood, basis for every story. Not only the stage props in which people act. But so…
Authors, there’s no shortcut!
Don’t ALL artists need years of practise before going public? Since the advent of self-publishing, writers seem to be the only artists often thinking they can just skip and shortcut…
Sex, Romance, and the Viking Woman | Gina Conkle’s Guest Blog for Dirty, Sexy History
Sex and romance have spiced up history. There’s the tragic tale of Marc Antony and Cleopatra and the Middle Ages pairing of intellectual souls, Heloise and Peter Abelard. There’s the…
A writer’s (bad) conscience
… will it ever stop? I started writing seriously when the kids were small and at home, with me. Back then, writing didn’t feel like a job yet, because I…
Loosen up your inner boss: important flexibility
How to keep a writer writing: organisation, and flexible continuity — or continuous flexibility? Creativity as such isn’t that hard to come by. Ideas can come in snippets or not…
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