20 questions and a selfie: A day in the life of Sandra Bellamy, quirky blog trainer
Sandra is a UK-based blogger and business trainer who encourages writers to embrace their quirky sides, the things that make writers authentic and different, the things that help writers create their niches and run profitable businesses.
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Gifts of the Boneyard
In my own work, there is nothing I have struggled with more than the repeated need for revision. I have put aside a nascent novel for months at a time because I felt overwhelmed by what was required to get it into shape. Part of the difficulty is that we must be both the creator and the physician of our writing, which are quite different skills and require quite different states of mind. The expressive exuberance of creating is what gets me to my desk. But the humble, open, unknowing that I must bring to the work of revision is where I find my strength. In the boneyard. Let me explain …
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Oh, the places you will go … in your sleep
Sleep has always been a cruel mistress for me. I love sweet, dreamy slumber, but sleep has not always returned …
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Face your fears, shake them off and move on—with a slightly quicker pace
In a moment of courage, or fear, or madness, I spun around, and in a single moment, stutter-stepped in the direction of my attacker, shook my fist in a display of dominance and screamed at the dog in the most Alpha voice I could muster, "Git the hell outta here, dog!"
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20 questions and a selfie: A day in the life of Peter Hogenkamp, author of the Jesuit thriller series
Ten years ago, Peter picked up a pencil on a Saturday night and started writing a novel on an old college notebook he found underneath the sofa. Most of it ended up in the filter of his sister-in-law's swimming pool the following spring—true story—but by then it was too late; he'd (re)caught the writing bug. He needed to keep writing.
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20 questions and a selfie: A day in the life of Lisette Brodey, author and publisher at Saberlee Books
Lisette has split her writing career between two U.S. coasts, East and West. Following several years in the New York radio industry, she moved to Los Angeles, where she held various positions at Paramount Studios in Hollywood and CBS Studio Center in Studio City.
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