Writers’ Workshop Blog
Take a Meeting With Yourself!
This is my annual reminder that this is a GREAT time (well, anytime is great, really) to have a meeting with yourself, or yourself and your significant other, or yourself and your family, to go over...
Writing Prompt: Summertime and the Living Is Easy
Here’s a writing prompt for you today: summertime! What does summer evoke for you? Good feelings? Bad? Does it make you think of a carefree childhood? A horrible time at camp? Your parents getting...
Promote Others and Help Yourself
Authors are not in competition, we're on the same team! A reader can finish the average book in 5-6 hours. An author can't expect only their book to make their audience happy. Our readers need need...
Five Ways to Write (Almost) Flawlessly
I'll let you in on a secret: I made a glaring error in my second book. And, why? Because I was arrogant and myopic, and probably a little stupid. Thankfully, that writer has grown up a bit and her...
When Memory Doesn’t ‘Pan Out’ With Reality
In Prince Harry's book Spare, there are some glaring errors that I blame his ghostwriter for not fixing. The ghostwriter's job is not just to relay the story given to them by making it readable and...
Ideas From the Oddest of Places
A snowman stared back at me today while I made some gf peanut butter cookies. The snowman was made by my now 21-year old daughter, currently eating a quesadilla in the breakfast nook, having just...
The Secret to Writing a Book
Perhaps you've heard: "you should write a book!" That's advice to take to heart. If someone is so enamored by your story or life event, then trust their judgment. That's what happened to Christi...
Be Careful With Your Words!
I always tell my authors that they need to really be sure that they want to 'say that' when speaking poorly of someone in their books. Once it's done, it's done. Regardless of future edits, anyone...
Interview with Christ Studios
Christi and I are so excited to announce that we just wrapped an interview with Latasha Colander Clark at Christ Studios. We'll be dropping that soon on social media. Be sure to check out our...
There Isn’t Anyone Like Her
The Princess (on HBO Max) The grainy reaction video was everyone’s story that night. My sister Cyd said she’d recently watched the Ed Perkins’ Princess Diana documentary, The Princess, and told me,...
