By Milli Thornton THE END OF THE WORLD may be coming as advertised. On the other hand, it could all be a hoax the way Y2K was. Who knows? All I know is that I’m not going to spend 2012 listening to scary predictions. I’m going to spend it on my creative dreams. I decided…
Category Archives: dreams and goals
A Writer’s Spreadsheet
By Milli Thornton Milli, I want to let you know how much I adore writing for you, simply because of the sheer enthusiasm you have for what we’re all doing. I’ve come to thrive on it, I want you to enjoy what I write and that gees me on soooo much. — JM Merchant MY…
Fear of Rejection
By guest blogger Patrick Ross Six weeks. Thirty-five states. Forty-three interviews. Six thousand, eight hundred miles. Four time zones. One speeding ticket. Those are some key statistics from my summer 2010 road trip across the United States. I headed out in a rented hybrid to capture on video creative individuals. My interview subjects included writers,…
Fear of Finishing
… A mini course on what not to do. By guest blogger Tricia Sutton It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s read all or parts of my novel that I began writing it on April Fool’s Day, 2007. Nor should they be surprised it was one writing-on-steroids April Fool’s Day later that I…
i have a confession
by Michael Lockhart I’ve been more aware than usual lately that I tend to work my way around things obliquely before I actually tackle them head on. I allude to a lot of things for a long time until I screw up the courage, or find the right time, or my self-imposed defensive orbit just…
Acting. Writing. Creating.
Written by Ben Hopkin I’ve been acting since I was ten years old. It was a part of my growing up, an integral slice of who I was and how I saw myself. I lived for the smell of hot lights, stale costumes and pancake makeup. So much of my definition of myself was influenced…
From The Rooftops
By Judy Clement Wall Over the past couple of years, I’ve learned the value of setting a goal and saying it aloud. To someone. (Or to lots of someones, if you have a blog.) I’ve used the technique to write (and then rewrite) a novel, submit stories to new markets, complete NaNoWriMo, try things I’ve…
Writer Discovered While Waitressing
By Milli Thornton One of my screenwriting idols is Diane Thomas. Back in the early 80′s, Diane pioneered a new genre—the action-adventure/comedy-romance—with her script for Romancing the Stone. Diane was waitressing when she had the opportunity to pitch her script to customer Michael Douglas, who proceeded to buy, produce and star in the film with…
The Year I Quit Writing
By J. R. Turner I’ve quit a lot of things in my life. I quit smoking, my job at a potato warehouse, buying yarn without a pattern. And I quit writing in January of 2010. I’m a multi-published author with six novels in print, one in eBook, and a host of awards under my belt….
Do You Have a Writing Destiny?
By Milli Thornton DESTINY. Quite a grand word, isn’t it? Something to live up to. Something to stir (or chill?) the blood. On the other hand, sometimes it can be healthy to look at grand words and concepts from a fresh perspective to avoid stereotyping them. After all, we’re writers; words should be at our…
