Getting Fear out of the Driver’s Seat
I wrote an article yesterday that compared being driven with being motivated. As I was doing my research and putting it all together, I realized that this is a concept I’ve thought about and struggled with many times, but never in such a succinct manner. It all boils down to this: Fear drives you. Reward [...]
Writing Through Major Events
My oldest son graduates from high school this week. It’s wonderful and bittersweet to see him close this chapter in his life and face a brand new chapter with excitement and a little fear. It’s also really tough to keep my writing quotas and meet my deadlines with all of the upheaval. When I first [...]
Writing When I Don’t Wanna Write
Sometimes it can be so tough to open up the word processor and start working. Today is one of those days. Last night I finished installing all of my files and updates on a brand new computer with a brand new monitor. I got it all put together just in time to go to bed, [...]
Gotta Keep Typing
When people ask me what I do for a living, I usually tell them I’m a freelance writer. That’s a nice, broad explanation of the way I bring in enough money to pay the bills. It covers the blogs and articles I’m paid for, and it could cover the part time captioning work I do [...]
First-Year Writer’s Self Concept
I realized recently that I need to change my self image related to writing. When I started looking for work as a writer, I was facing an empty bank account and a huge stack of bills. Every job I found was a gift from the freelance writing gods, no matter what the topic or how [...]
In Which the Myth of Easy Money is Busted
Earning a living as a freelance writer was supposed to be so easy. I can put two sentences together fairly well, and I don’t (always) rely on spellcheck as a constant crutch. I found a website that ranked my writing in a category that pays 1.5 cents per word. I can select as many articles [...]
Favorite authors
Everyone I ever spoke to has had at last a favorite book, if not a favorite author. My father loved Alistair MacLean. We had every thriller the man ever penned. Several of them had no covers from our frustration as we threw them across the room at the end. He did not always take the [...]
Beta reader’s group
I am the other half of M and H. I guess considering us a publishing company is biting off a big chunk. After all, we have nothing substantial to publish but a couple of blogs and short stories. Then I think of my grand-dad who always teased us during family card games, “The Lord hates [...]
Still Getting My Feet Wet
When I was thinking about what sort of website I would like to put together to advertise for our freelance writing, I never thought I would end up creating a blog. Turns out, a blog really makes the most sense, though. So I guess Maryanne and I will share this space and use it as [...]
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