by Angie Powers | Jan 31, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
To continue our discussion of the art of self-sabotage or procrastination, first we have to admit that we, as writers, sometimes want the aura of being a “writer” without any of the suffering that the title entails, all the hard work and self-doubt and isolation of...
by Angie Powers | Jan 30, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Writers get writers’ block. Happens to everyone at one point or another. It happens to some writers every day. Take me, for example. I struggle every day. Thanks to a recommendation from an old friend, I’ve been reading Steven Pressfield’s really great book The...
by Angie Powers | Jan 27, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
During a mentoring call in the Book Writing World, I had a breakthrough about writing detailed scenes, an AHA MOMENT that allowed me to internalize something I’ve known but didn’t quite know-know. Elizabeth’s exercise had us select a character and put him or her in a...
by Angie Powers | Jan 26, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Let’s talk pitch. It what you “do” when you’re trying to get an agent or editor’s attention regarding your finished book. You know what I’m talking about, the book you spent years on, perfecting, and now’s it’s ready to be read by the world and what’s more,...
by Angie Powers | Jan 25, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
As writers, we are just like Greek mythic sculptor Pygmalion and our books are like Galatea to us. We are attempting to create the most perfect book for our readers. In a recent mentoring workshop in the Book Writing World, Elizabeth drew from the author Gilbert...
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