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Archive for December, 2009

Writers’ dreams, writers’ goals

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

I’m starting you out with Part 5 of Dean Wesley Smith’s posts on writers’ motivation, but you’re grown-ups and can go read the first four posts yourself. I just love this current one on writing down your Big Dream and your writers’ goals–especially in these few days before the beginning of a new year.
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Mythbusters: Can you make a living writing fiction?

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Another great post by author and teacher Dean Wesley Smith, demolishing the myth that you can’t make a living writing fiction. It all comes down to the Magic Bakery. Read, learn, and go write!

Negotiation, part 3

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Excellent new installment in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s continuing series, the Freelancer’s Survival Guide. This week, it’s more on negotiation–including understanding the basics of the contracts you sign.
Remember, as Kris Rusch and her husband Dean Wesley Smith drill into our heads at the workshops they teach: “No one will ever care about your career [...]

FAT CAT recipes? We gotcher recipes.

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Lately a lot of people have been asking me for recipes from FAT CAT. Some of the recipes in the book are ones I made up and experimented with, some are from other sources, including chef and cookbook author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of www.compassionatecooks.com. I loved Colleen’s work so much, I asked her to do the [...]

Negotiation, part 2

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Boy, do I see myself in a lot of the mistakes and fears Kristine Kathryn Rusch points out in her latest installment of Freelancer’s Survival Guide. This is part two on negotiation. Read, enjoy, and learn!

Negotation–love it? Flee from it?

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of the latest installments from Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s ongoing series “The Freelancer’s Survival Guide“–not because they’re not all great, but just because I’ve been too immersed in researching and writing the new book. Hope that’s a good enough excuse.
But I know a lot of us could [...]


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