By guest blogger Jenn Martin-Ilo I RECENTLY LOST my job because my company decided to outsource some of its payroll HR duties. Since I’ve been home, I have done a lot of thinking: What else can you do with freedom? (Okay, so I don’t really have much freedom since I have a six-month-old baby ….
Category Archives: claiming writerhood
Blowing Up the Writing Balloon
By guest writer Vicki Lathom. Photos Copyright © Vicki Lathom. I guess it all started when I realized I wasn’t having fun with writing, but I had a lurking feeling that I might have fun if I just knew how. I’ve been writing for 40 years: majored in journalism, was a public information officer for…
The @IQOkie Debate
By guest blogger Tricia Sutton Rules, guidelines, and basic social media etiquette for aspiring authors do, for the most part, make a lot of sense. Like, why use a cat avatar if my book isn’t about cats? My future published book will not be written by IQOkie (which does represent my book), so why have…
How a Horse Trainer Trained Me
By guest blogger Lisa Kilian When I got out of school, I knew I was going to be a writer. I read all the books on craft and salivated over contemporary fiction novels with pictures of beautiful women authors on the back. I followed all the most important industry blogs; Nathan Bransford, Query Shark, Miss…
Why do you write?
By Judy Clement Wall On Twitter, there is this big (kind of wonderful) ongoing discussion happening. People are answering the question, “Why do you write?” (You can scroll through the tweets using the hashtag, #whyiwrite). It’s weirdly beautiful and touching, the honesty (cleverness, humility, cynicism, earnestness, narcissism, generosity) with which people have responded to the…
Reluctant but Ravenous Guest Blogger
By guest blogger Catherine Greti I’m in the last module of the Fear of Writing graduate course and facing an assignment that asks me to be a guest blogger on the FoW blog. That’s Milli—helping us push past our limits again! I’m just getting comfortable with my own blogging site, and that was created only…
Something Left To Say
By guest blogger Jane Koenen Bretl When I log in to blog, on any given day WordPress enthusiastically shares that there are 376,364 bloggers, 479,781 new posts and 95,964,119 new words posted THAT DAY on wordpress.com. I find this staggering; that is just WordPress.com, which does not include the .org folks, or the writers on…
Writers and the Fear of Egotistical Biographies
By guest blogger Natasha Tracy Hi. My name is Natasha and I am a writer. A simple sentence, I know, but one it took me years to say out loud. Even after writing thousands of posts, read by a myriad of people on weighty topics such as bipolar, depression and Justin Timberlake, it took my…
i have a confession
by Michael Lockhart I’ve been more aware than usual lately that I tend to work my way around things obliquely before I actually tackle them head on. I allude to a lot of things for a long time until I screw up the courage, or find the right time, or my self-imposed defensive orbit just…
