Worst Case Scenarios are Bad For Your Heart and Good For Your Writing
carriejonesbooks Shaun used to call me, “WC,” because he is evil. No. Really. He called me that because I’m always thinking up the worst case scenario for every situation and planning…
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Writing Advice – Down on My Shins, Baby
Writing advice. Everyone has it even if it’s as simple as, “Don’t listen to advice.” But there is no one way to write the same way there’s no one way…
Dealing With Failure – Part One
We talk so much about the lack of civility in current culture, but there is also this great thirst to help, to care, to make a difference. And that matters.…
The Poet Who Saw Me – Wednesday Writing Wisdom
When I was a kid at Bates College, I spent a lot of my time feeling like less. My family had been kind of poor after my step-father died. My…
First Drafts Suck But So Do A Ton of Other Things
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…