Where Normal Need Not Apply
How many times in the past week have we heard “Traditional NY publishing is dead. Barry Eisler has proved it.” Or “NY publishing isn’t dead. Amanda Hocking has proved it.” So which is it? Or does it not matter? If you haven’t heard about the debate, the gist of it […]
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My Twitter friend Austin Wulf wrote a blog post yesterday, What’s So Bad About Perfectionism?, and that question got me thinking. My blog readers might know I call myself not just a perfectionist, but an over-achieving perfectionist. Is that a bad thing? *smile* I think it depends. Is Perfectionism Bad? […]
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Over the past six months, I’ve received feedback on my work from many sources—contest judges to beta readers. A lot of them told me things I didn’t want to hear. It would have been very easy to get defensive and react along the lines of: Didn’t they read it? It’s […]
Yes, it’s cheesy, but that picture is me right now because today is my last day in the deadline cave. Yay! As I’m finishing up my final push to the finish, I wanted to share this post from last summer. I think it’s still relevant today, maybe even more so. […]
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First, let me state: No, I’m not giving up. But this round in the deadline cave has been especially brutal, so I’d be lying if I said the thought hadn’t crossed my mind for a split second. This past weekend, my computer froze in the middle of saving my document […]
Several months ago, I ran a post about what to look for in a critique partner. One of the points I’d made was to evaluate whether a potential critique partner was familiar with our genre. Only someone knowledgeable about our genre would know the expectations for pacing, character development, etc. […]
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I get a brief reprieve from the deadline cave this week while I wait for feedback from my awesome readers. When I first sent my work out to them, I felt great. This work was as good as I could make it. But going back to last week’s perfection posts […]
Yes, I’m still under deadline, but an interesting issue came up in the comments on my last post about perfectionism. Perfectionists tend to be nitpicky, no surprise there. But there’s a time when that trait is very helpful, and a time when we need to ignore the compulsion to tweak. […]
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Yes, I’m still in the deadline cave this week, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yay! While I’m hiding, I wanted to share this post I originally wrote last summer. The lesson is even more relevant to me right now. (That’s a look at one […]
I’m still in the deadline cave and self-banned from Twitter, but I wanted to post about something I’ve realized through this revision process. It’s probably safe to say we all want to get better at our jobs, whether that’s writing or something else. But how much of what we do […]
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