Finding My Religion and My Story
carriejonesbooks Last week during our podcast about the strange things parents do, a lot of the people listening mentioned growing up very religious as Jehovah Witnesses or Pentecostals or Baptists. My…
perfectionism
You don’t have to be perfect to be awesome.
Look. You don’t have to be perfect. Here’s the harsh truth: You’re not going to ever be perfect to everyone. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to evolve, to care,…
A Story Is About More than Mechanics and Grammar.
Too often we really focus only on the mechanics of story. Writers and student-writers are told to make perfect sentences, understand the use of the semi-colon, and to spell words…
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…
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…