N is for Never Give Up

This week I’ve been vacillating back and forth between, “oh, when will my time come?” to, “I’m in it to win it and I’m never gonna give up!” I can pretty safely say most writers have ridden this roller coaster. Sure, we’ve all heard the Stephenie Meyer success story–she queried for like 6 months before [...]

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Flake-out Friday: M is for Magic

Ok, so I’m not sure how this worked, but it’s SUPER COOL!!!! (The link)

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L is for Looking Back

In the writing game, it’s super easy to get suck on meeting a deadline, getting that query letter out there, or finding the next writing “wrong” to “right.” Sometimes this forward focus leaves us wondering how much longer it will take before we land an agent, get a book deal, or finally be done revising [...]

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J is for Just Keep Swimming

Gosh, it’s hard to play this game day after day after day, isn’t it? I mean, where is my breakthrough? My success? Where’s the day where 100 agents fight over my manuscript and publishers cold call me saying they’ve read my excerpt somewhere and want to offer me a 20 book deal? What’s that you [...]

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Mental Health Monday–I is for Impulse Control Disorder

The DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV) catalogues the defined mental health disorders so that clinicians have a common language when discussing diagnoses and symptoms. Impulse Control Disorders are their own “set” and include things such as: Trichotillomania (pulling out hair, eyelashes, eyebrows) Intermittent Explosive Disorder (extreme “explosive” behavior, often violent, with little provocation) Pathological [...]

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