I’m always excited to do a blog post with fellow writer Valerie Day Sanchez. Today we are going to explore our shared opinions on being a writer and what that means. Being a writer is like no other job. It is fraught with a plethora of emotions and quirks that are unique to the profession….
Category: SXSW
SXSW Monthly Collaboration: Juggling Writing and Editing at the same time.
How excited am I to be working with the fabulous Val Day-Sanchez again?! Our monthly SXSW articles have been hard to write because we are both so busy and it’s nice to get back into the collaborative swing of things. This month we are focusing on the art of juggling both writing and editing….
January SXSW Collaboration: Inspiration and Character Development
This month’s SXSW collaboration with my fabulous author in crime Valerie Day-Sanchez is about creating characters and finding inspiration before, during and after writing a novel. Let’s start with what inspires me as a writer. I’m going to be honest with you. I find inspiration in the craziest and sometimes most mundane things in…
SXSW October Collaboration: Doing it Our way!
Demand: To ask for with proper authority, claim as a right. To ask for peremptorily or urgently. To call for or require as just, proper, or necessary. There is a moment when you are writing a book when you feel an almost expeditious fear. These words which you have slaved over are going…
SXSW Monthly Collaboration: Life, pain and the pursuit of writing.
I am horribly happy to be collaborating once again with the fabulous Valerie Day-Sanchez. Last month was a real doozy for both of us and funny enough it has inspired this month’s column on life as a writer with all the many outside interferences we face on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. We…
July SXSW Collaboration: Writing Chapter One
For this month’s July SXSW collaboration, Valerie and I are talking about starting anew. We both have finished our trilogies, and we are both embarking on the journey of creating a new series. I have to be honest; it really did take me awhile to get excited to begin writing again. I was still…
June SXSW Collaboration: The End of the Beginning
It’s over. It’s done. It’s finished. Those three phrases are almost heart wrenching when it comes to writing a trilogy. On one hand, you feel like you have accomplished something truly extraordinary while on the other you feel an immense sense of sadness. It’s hard to put into words the emotions that are running…
May SXSW Collaboration: Balancing Motherhood and Writing
In honor of this being the month that we give thanks and admiration to our mothers and the woman that inspire us, Valerie and I decided to do an article that discusses the lovely balancing act of being a mother and a writer. I think that this will be interesting considering both she and I have…
SXSW April Collaboration Article: Marketing via Social Media
For our April article Valerie and I will discussing some of our tips about marketing via social media. I have to be honest, I think Valerie is by far more of an expert than myself but as always it is so much fun working with her on these monthly collaborations. Responses will be recorded as…
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