To be a writer, write what you know.
Don't write a murder mystery that happens in Antarctica unless you've been there. If you've spent a year a the scientific outpost there and been involved in the life of the place, then go ahead.
On the other hand, think of what you do know about. I, for example, have a Ph. D. in history and spent 8 years or so in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I would have been well qualified to write a mystery about a graduate student who's murdered for her dissertation topic.
Or I could have written a non-fiction book about being in graduate school. Or about an academic trying to make it in the business world.
Would these have been any good, or would anyone have bought them? Well those are different questions.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Write Every Day in the Same Place at the Same Time
To be a writer, write every day in the same place at the same time. Find out what, when, and where is most productive for you and do it.
I write at my desk in the morning every day. For me, mornings are most productive for creative thought. Phones aren't ringing, people aren't moving about, there are no demands on my time. I can just write.
Others may be most productive in the afternoon, or in the evenings, or late at night.
I can revise other times and other places. In fact I find it best not to revise in my study because I'm open to distractions. Distractions loosen your mind for other things.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
I write at my desk in the morning every day. For me, mornings are most productive for creative thought. Phones aren't ringing, people aren't moving about, there are no demands on my time. I can just write.
Others may be most productive in the afternoon, or in the evenings, or late at night.
I can revise other times and other places. In fact I find it best not to revise in my study because I'm open to distractions. Distractions loosen your mind for other things.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Write Every Day in the Same Place
To be a writer, write every day in the same place.
Find that special place where you like to write. Maybe it's your bedroom. Maybe it's your porch, or your attic.
Maya Angelou reportedly rents a hotel room and goes there every day at 4PM and writes on legal sized yellow-lined pads.
Marcel Proust supposedly went to his seaside home, pasted paper up over all the windows, then wrote in bed in his pajamas never leaving the room.
I write in my study in the early mornings.
It doesn't matter how unusual or weird it is. It could be at a rest area along a busy interstate or in an airplane circling over Siberia.
Just find that place, then go there to write. You will find after only a little time, you'll associate writing with the place and you'll be more productive.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Find that special place where you like to write. Maybe it's your bedroom. Maybe it's your porch, or your attic.
Maya Angelou reportedly rents a hotel room and goes there every day at 4PM and writes on legal sized yellow-lined pads.
Marcel Proust supposedly went to his seaside home, pasted paper up over all the windows, then wrote in bed in his pajamas never leaving the room.
I write in my study in the early mornings.
It doesn't matter how unusual or weird it is. It could be at a rest area along a busy interstate or in an airplane circling over Siberia.
Just find that place, then go there to write. You will find after only a little time, you'll associate writing with the place and you'll be more productive.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Write Every Day
I write every day. It's not the only thing I do, and I don't write the same things every day. But when I'm hot on a story, that's the focus of my life.
Some days there are lots of things you have to do. Sometimes emergencies come up. Sometimes I'm tired, or once in a while sick. Sometimes I just don't feel like it. I write anyway, even if it's just a little.
Write a blog. Write in a diary. Write poems. Write about anything.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Some days there are lots of things you have to do. Sometimes emergencies come up. Sometimes I'm tired, or once in a while sick. Sometimes I just don't feel like it. I write anyway, even if it's just a little.
Write a blog. Write in a diary. Write poems. Write about anything.
My goal here is to help writers achieve their dreams. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Only Writing is Writing
Only writing is writing. This may seem obvious, but it isn't to many people.
Thinking about writing is not writing. Sharpening your pencil, or filling a pen, is not writing. Planning to write is not writing. Reading one more book before writing is not writing. Revising is not writing. Doing the laundry or making a sandwich is not writing. Wishing you could get going writing is not writing.
Only writing is writing.
My goal here is to express my ideas on writing and produce more skilled writers. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Thinking about writing is not writing. Sharpening your pencil, or filling a pen, is not writing. Planning to write is not writing. Reading one more book before writing is not writing. Revising is not writing. Doing the laundry or making a sandwich is not writing. Wishing you could get going writing is not writing.
Only writing is writing.
My goal here is to express my ideas on writing and produce more skilled writers. How am I doing?
Entrepreneurship fuels my writing. For my ideas on entrepreneurship, go to www.hatman2.blogspot.com.
To get a piece of short fiction published, go to www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com. It's for short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, novel excerpts, short scripts, short plays, or other creative writing. Publication is guaranteed upon payment of a modest fee.
Read my mystery, The Case of the Kearney Music School Murders (2007), for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.
For my ideas on buying or selling a house, go to www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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