“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ~Terry Pratchett
I am an indie author, so my deadlines and productions schedules are set years in advance, but they’re set by me. Which means that if I go through a period of conferences and more conferences and conventions followed by Type A flu, pneumonia, strep, and sinus infections that spread through my family, thus knocking me out of any definable work from mid-September to mid-November (what an autumn we had that year!), then the world is not going to collapse around me. However, that also means that I need to get out my dry erase markers and my year-at-a-glance laminated calendars and start shifting things around.
“Do not give up. The beginning is always the hardest.” ~wisdom from a fortune cookie
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work ~Harry Golden
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. ~Jodi Picoult
“Opportunities are usually described as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” –Ann Landers
As Christian writers, our goal is to impact the world for Christ through our written words. That’s something Capital Christian Writers Fellowship has been passionate ….
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” –Robert Frost
The Associated Press insists on the two-letter spelling. The Chicago Manual of Style says either spelling is okay, but that the “okay” spelling looks more ….
My take? “Irregardless” is not a word that should ever be used in the narrative text. I do concede that it could be just fine ….