Tag: inspiration
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Writing Anywhere. No Pen, No Computer Needed.
Writing is one of the most versatile passions anyone can have. To be productive, you need nothing but your brain and a little time. Paper is helpful at some points. Of course, a laptop is even more helpful. But neither of those are needed. No. Not at all, or at least until “eventually” comes around.…
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Inspiration is Cheap. Just Open Your Eyes. (or Ears)
I’m amazed at the inspiration around me. I went for decades not seeing it. But it’s there. Everywhere – Invalidating our self-pitying claims of writer’s block. Maybe we put blinders on and can’t see it. Maybe we become so focused on the page that we forget that the page belongs in the world. That’s where…
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Ideas for Indie Authors: A Novel is Chasing Me. I’m Losing. (and Winning)
When good ideas impregnate the mind, why fight them? Over the past three weeks, I’ve had a novel idea, actually related to novel-writing, and I haven’t been able to shake it. Even in the midst of revising novel #5, which was supposed to be my priority, this new idea has consumed me every free moment…
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Bad Writing Sessions – Push Onward
Ahhh! The tortured writer. Tortured in thoughts. Words that taunt. Phrases which elude. Plot which plods. Characters I don’t care about. When will it end? Perhaps when I end this tortuous session. We’ve all had them – those unproductive sessions when nothing flows right and everything sounds exactly wrong. That was me this afternoon. I…
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My First 15 Months as an Indie Author
Honestly, it feels like I’ve been “out there” as an author for 15 years. Has it really been only 15 months? A simple check of the math will attest to the fact that, yes, indeed I released my first novel 15 months ago in December 2012. So much has happened since then that I have…
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Walk & Unleash Creativity
You know how it is. You get home from work or school, you have so much to do, and the one thing that is easiest to expunge from existence is exercise. It takes too long and too much energy. It’s much easier to vegetate in front of some screen. I was at that point last…
Author Mark W Sasse 