The Blog Hop Begins

As previously posted here and on Writing without Workshops, I've enlisted a few people to start out a “blog hop”. I've never done this before, and I don't think any of the people starting it out have either, but that's not stopping us.

The idea of it is to encourage writers to discuss their own work in a way that will be relevant to themselves and to 

"What should I write about?"

9 METHODS TO ASSURE YOU ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING TO WRITE 

When people ask this, I think, "Seriously???" (I have the extra question marks there in my mind.)

Really, though, people who tell me they are writers, or want to be writers, ask me this. It's difficult for me to imagine. Personally, I never have a shortage of things to write about—I don't have enough time.

But maybe it's coming to writing from a different place. Maybe it's a place where you know you want to write because you enjoy it but you don't know 

Blog Hop!

We're all writers. So why not share what we do?

The idea of a blog hop is to encourage authors to discuss their own work in a way that will be relevant to you and to readers interested in writing and the writing life. The plan is to give all bloggers about writing a lift, to build a writing community, exchange ideas about writing, and to support each other in our writing projects.

Need Time to Write?--Go Public!

5 ways going public will help you find time to write...

You say you want to write your book. You need to write your book.

The story is constantly on your mind, but you are not writing nearly enough. What's the deal?

So much to ask about the story. One question for the writer: Why am I not writing?
(Image: Orin Zebest on flickr)

Struggle.

As a writer, I struggle.

And not in a good way.

Character Based v. Plot Based Fiction

Are you writing a character based novel or plot based novel?

A lot of us will insist that we are writing character based fiction because we've spent what seems like ages developing our characters. Our characters are engaging and funny, and they are the reason people read our work.

But we might be wrong.