Oct 11, 2022Fear of Deleting Words You Fought to Write…“Practice makes perfect.” How many times have you heard your parents say that? For me, that saying was right up there with, “We’ll do that (exciting thing) one day.” And “No, we can’t wrap up your uneaten pork chop and send it to Africa to feed the hungry.” Okay, yeah…Deleting Words4 min readDeleting Words4 min read
Aug 17, 2022Visualize to Maximize Your Writer Words…Skiing — you head down the slope without thinking about how you will guide your skis around the curves. Tennis — you head onto the court, not knowing how your racket will meet the ball. Cooking — you throw a bunch of ingredients in the pan, having no idea what…Writer Advice4 min readWriter Advice4 min read
Jun 21, 2022Writing Through a Personal Crisis…I won’t kid you. This is the most difficult thing a writer can do. When your world crashes down, and you still need to produce content to make a living. Liken this emotional feat to being given horrendous news and then having to step on stage and woo a crowd…Deadlines5 min readDeadlines5 min read
Apr 19, 2022A Notice of Post Rotation for Author, BJ ThompsonFor the foreseeable future, or at least until I complete the two major book projects I have on tap, I will be writing in rotation for this and other websites under my name (see list below, and you are welcome to follow each/all for their updates). That means that I…Post Rotation2 min readPost Rotation2 min read
Apr 5, 2022Fear of Being Hurt — Free Yourself from Control…Fear of Being Hurt = Need for Control That equation has been around since our caveman days… Caveman fears being eaten by sabre-toothed tiger. Caveman starts fires around the perimeter of his encampment. …Fear Of Failure3 min readFear Of Failure3 min read
Mar 29, 2022Learn from Everyone, Compare to No One…“Be a sponge.” ~ That was the best advice I had ever been given by a professor. Learn from everyone, anyone, all the time. If you don’t stay open to knowledge, you won’t grow in any métier. “Be yourself.” ~ Another advice gem, but one I’ve fought with over the…Writer Advice4 min readWriter Advice4 min read
Mar 15, 2022Story Brainstorm — Sink that Writers Block Boat…Your mind’s eye saw the start of your tale. You motored along… click-clacking away with wild abandon… Then, your fingers stopped. You stared at the screen. Your mind went blank. The cursor blinked on, and off, and on, and off, and OH, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!, and off… You…Stopnotwritingnow4 min readStopnotwritingnow4 min read
Mar 1, 2022Writer Voice — Write You, Not Them…New writers… they’re a special breed. Coming off eons of notebook navel-gazing scribbles and polished pro reading… these new scribes KNOW what’s good and what’s not, and by gum, they’ll write freakishly polished first drafts, or not write at all! If The New Yorker or the New York Times don’t…Finding Your Writer Voice3 min readFinding Your Writer Voice3 min read
Feb 23, 2022First Line, First Page — STOP Obsessing, START a Campfire Tale…I swear… So-called online experts want to scare the poo-poo out of new writers with their pressure-mounted one-liners, like, “Your first sentence, your first page, must be stellar!” A new writer reads this, and thinks, Man, the last thing I ever did that was stellar was accidentally fly my HUUUUGE…Stopnotwritingnow3 min readStopnotwritingnow3 min read
Feb 15, 2022Fear of Writing — Ride the Wave…Fear… It’s the №1 driving force behind writers not writing. People look at fear as a bad thing, when in reality it’s truly your friend. That emotion warns you of perils ahead. *But what if those perils are merely imagined, and not real?* Writers, artists, more than any other societal…Fear Of Writing2 min readFear Of Writing2 min read
