ROW80: Inner Critic Smackdown – Bird by Bird and Tweet by Tweet The White Screen of Death My blog was stricken by the dreaded White Screen of Death (aka WSOD) last night, so I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do my ROW80 check-in today. The dreaded WSOD happens when you crash the WordPress database. In my case, I tried on an incompatible theme and – yikes – my blog turned into a plain white page for the next 12 hours. Thanks to an old pal and a new pal (Thanks Doug! Thanks Susan!), all is well, and…
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NiNoCon: A Free Online Writers Conference Thanks to the fabulous Nicole Rivera, I attended a free online writing conference yesterday. This meant putting in a few hours of work today, but #NiNoCon was well worth it! Don’t just take my word for it, you can check out the chat presentations online and lots of other great info from the writers conference over at The Writer’s Dojo. Here’s a quote from the dojo which sums up yesterday’s presentations: Sensei Jeff Vincent introduced the concept behind the writing dojo and author Sheralyn Pratt offered up the marketing myths we must defy in…
The Art of Writing is the Art of Applying the Seat of the Pants to the Seat of the Chair One of the first online writing groups I belonged to was called A2S. This stood for “Ass to Seat,” and was our cheeky nod to Mary Heaton Vorse’s famous quote: “The Art of Writing is the Art of Applying the Seat of the Pants to the Seat of the Chair” While hunting for the quote’s origin, I came across a Suite 101 article by Vickie Britton in which she explains that: “This quote is attributed to Mary Heaton Vorse (1874-1966),…
I love reading memoirs and diaries (published ones!) I recently picked up three memoirs at Half Price Books: “Waiting – the true confessions of a waitress,” by Debra Ginsberg, “But enough about me,” by Jancee Dunn and “Growing up Psychic,” by Matthew Modine. I enjoyed all three, but the opening of Ginsberg’s memoir really spoke to me: “I’ve been a writer longer than I’ve been a waitress and, as such, a perpetual student of the human experience… I wanted my own stories and saw no better way to collect them… Truly, there has never been a dull moment at the…