Today I am sitting in a coffee shop as my computer restores the last few hour’s worth of backed up files onto my computer, which crashed last week. As it does so, I’m feeling grateful, especially since I thought this process might take another whole week. (I have a very slow satellite internet connection that only allows me so much…
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I just came back from giving a talk at a local writer’s club. There I heard the same question I hear everywhere I go: What’s the best way for writer’s to accomplish their social networking — especially given the fact that they really don’t want to do social networking at all. They just want to write. Here’s my very, very…
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Do you want to write a book or even an article or essay, but feel stressed out and self-conscious when you think about the fact that your writing will be read by others? Does this reduce your creativity and leave you feeling blocked and unable to write? Try blogging. “Wait,” I hear you protest. “Blogging is a public form of…
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Last night I was at my local chapter meeting of the California Writer’s Club. I made an announcement about a great workshop we have coming up about writing, publishing and promoting ebooks. It features founder and CEO of Smashwords.com Mark Coker speaking for four hours–for the first time ever!–about the ebook revolution and how to get in on this publishing…
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Once upon a time I was very nervous about getting media placements and talking on the radio. Like most writers, I preferred to simply write, not speak–even if no one could actually see me. I even remember a time when I used a complete script to answer questions asked by the radio host and never varied at all from my…
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