You’re driving down the highway and BAM a brilliant story idea sparks your imagination. You know exactly what the beginning scene will look like and who the main characters are. You’re excited and ready to get started writing this soon to be bestseller. You get home to your computer or notebook, the story idea still [...]
With a realistic plan and all the tools and habits you need, you will succeed. Have no doubt. For extra motivation and a little celebration why not reward yourself too? I used to reward myself with shoes, boots actually. But I’m a work at home professional so I ended up with a closet full of [...]
Any new goal is likely to require a few new habits. They say it takes three to four weeks of consistent effort to make something a habit. Give yourself time and don’t load too many habits at once. For example, if you’re going to write 1000 words each day you might decide that you need [...]
Once you’ve identified your goal and you have planned, in detail, how you’re going to achieve your goal it’s time for the third step in the 2012 Romance Writing Success Plan. What Tools and Resources do You Need to Achieve Success? For example, if you’re submitting to a new agent or editor each week then [...]
This is where you begin to plan. (If you haven’t taken the first step, you can find the details here ) In this second step you’ll outline every single step you need to take to achieve your goal. Make sure the steps are realistic. For example, if you say that you’re going to write 5000 [...]
2012 is a year filled with promise and potential. It’s a year with an extra day. It’s also, thanks to those Mayans, a year that may be filled with myth and mystery. I don’t know about you but I’m really looking forward to seeing what this year brings. I’m also looking forward to making this [...]
I’ve experienced magnificent changes in my life and the lives of my family members through “alternative” medicine. I’m talking about practices and methodologies including Ayurveda, Integrated Manual Therapy, Meditation, positive thinking and energy. Most recently I tried something called binaural beats. I won’t go into too much detail about how it works but you can [...]
Happy Thursday! I know it’s a day early, normally I’d include useful links in the Hot Fun Friday post. However, I wanted to call special attention to this resource so you can plan accordingly. Writer’s Digest offers tons of books, a great magazine and writing resources for aspiring writers in all genres including romance. They [...]
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