Keeping the Writing Faith: 6 Ways to Keep Your Novel on Track With a Process Journal
Jennifer Haupt discusses six strategies for using a process journal to stay motivated, conquer writer's block, and keep making progress on your novel.
Keeping the Writing Faith: Strike a Balance Between Solitude and Community
Jennifer Haupt discusses five strategies for finding a good balance between your vital alone time and the benefits of participating in a writing community.
Keeping the Writing Faith: How to STOP Writing
Jennifer Haupt discusses why it's sometimes beneficial to stop writing—that is, to step back from your work-in-progress in order to maintain your motivation and find a more productive path forward.
Keeping the Writing Faith: Daily Writing Habits of Four Successful Authors
Four successful authors share their top daily writing habits that help them stay motivated when they need to get through that work in progress.
Great Expectations: How Re-Evaluating Your Writing Goals Can Help You Achieve Success
Here, William Kenower relates the story of a unique writer who began her journey with no expectations. The experience demonstrated how rethinking your writing goals and asking yourself what you really want to write can help you achieve success and happiness.
Keeping the Writing Faith: Defining & Redefining Success to Mantain Your Motivation
The following article is the first in a five-part series of articles by Jennifer Haupt. In this installment, she discusses how to maintain your writing motivation by rethinking what "success" means as a writer.
10 Ways to Overcome Lonely Writer Syndrome
One of the downsides to becoming a fulltime author or writer is that, by its very nature, writing can be a very lonely business. But there are things you can do to avoid lonely writer syndrome.
Walking the Writing Talk: 4 Tips for Staying Motivated and Finishing Your Writing Projects
Here are a few tips for staying on track and seeing your writing projects through to the end.
For the Love of Writing: 25 Wordsmiths Explain Why They Write
Last month, we called for our readers to share the motivations behind their wondrous words and reasons behind their love of writing.
LeBron’s Lessons for Authors
By Rob Eagar I’m a 5-foot, 10-inch man who can barely jump. LeBron James is 6-foot, 8-inch basketball superstar who can jump so high that people wonder if he’s human. So, we’re polar opposites on the basketball court. But, after watching LeBron win his first championship last week, I felt a...