writer’s block

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4 Ways to Battle Discouragement

By Darcy Pattison ⋅ October 10, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

4 Ways to Battle Discouragement When you are so very, very tired of yet another rejection, when discouragement threatens to overwhelm you, what do you do? Friends: One antidote is to stop writing and be with friends. Writer-friends are especially helpful because you can commiserate endlessly (read: complain) about how callous those horrible editors are, [...]

Relationships Focus Characters

By Darcy Pattison ⋅ August 9, 2011 ⋅ One comment

OK, so I have this revision to do and one key element of it is to deepen characterization and relationships. Uh, oh. My weakness! How did the editor know that it was my weak area? Even after spending agonizing hours on characterization, I’m still not hitting the mark. Which left me stumped on this revision. [...]

Stress

By Darcy Pattison ⋅ April 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Writers Plan Around Life Events Do you plan your writing year? Do you plan a month or a season ahead? How do you deal with stressful periods of life? I view my writing as my work, something I am privileged to do every day. I do try to plan ahead and make sure I’m accomplishing [...]

Fearless Writing #2

By Darcy Pattison ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night we had the next session of Fearless Writing, led by Crescent Dragonwagon.

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