Finding Direction Even When Life Seems Full of Failure
carriejonesbooks Editor Cheryl Klein talked about reading writer Dave Eggers’ interview in Harper Magazine. She talked about it during a time in her life where she felt like she was in…
Dogs are Smarter Than People
Writing Heroes That Don’t Suck – Dogs are Smarter Than People Podcast
Who do you root for? In your own life, this question is easy. We root for ourselves. A lot of the time we root for our friends, our family. We…
Writers, Be Simple – Dogs are Smarter Than People Podcast, Episode 18
We’ve all heard the statistics: Writers take ten years to get their first novel published, on average The average children’s book writer makes 5k a year, if she’s lucky. If…
Dogs Are Smarter Than People Podcast – First Drafts Suck, But It’s Okay
Hard writer truth time: First drafts suck. Almost everything stinks the first time you do it. That’s because it’s THE FIRST time you do it. But, we tend to expect…
Perfectionism – It’s good. It’s bad. It’s a pain for writers.
Perfectionists aren’t perfect people. They are almost always miserable people. Seriously. Think about it. There’s no such thing as perfect and if you are constantly trying to achieve perfection? What…