How To Stick To A Writing Routine When You’re NOT A Famous Author

Literary gossip has it that William Faulkner chopped off the bottom of his study door and had all his meals passed to him under the door when he was writing;  poet and playwright, Edna Vincent Millay wrote in a cottage on her property, and hung a white flag out of the window to get her husband’s attention whenever she needed something. Continue reading “How To Stick To A Writing Routine When You’re NOT A Famous Author”

Do Writing Workshops Really Work?

 

View from our workshop in St. Augustine, FL

It’s Squib Saturday, and it’s also about a month since I returned from the Algonkian Author-Mentor Novel Workshop in St. Augustine, Florida.  I was horrified to realize that in the last month I have not written a single word for my new thriller. Which brought me to the $64,000 question: Do writing workshops really work? Continue reading “Do Writing Workshops Really Work?”