Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Sounds like "Crooked Knife" has a very well-developed protagonist!
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Blog is Moving to WordPress
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Hi everyone,
As promised, I’m moving the blog over to WordPress:
http://elizabethspanncraig.com/blog/ . I’m
hoping for improved commenting capability there, as well as other improved blogging
functionality.
Thanks so much for following this blog—hope you’ll update
your bookmarks for the new site, if you’re not automatically directed. Thanks! (And thanks to Eldon Sarte with Blogheal for his assistance with the move.)
Monday, November 25, 2013
Keeping a Professional Distance From our Book
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about
gaining distance from our books. I
really feel that’s vital to both editing them effectively, gaining a critical
perspective of them, and learning from negative feedback.
One way to gain distance from our books
is to write another book. The authors I
know who wrote one book (and were traditionally published), fell into this
“only child syndrome” with their book…they helicopter-parented it and were
genuinely hurt over poor reviews. Hurt
to the point where they were immobilized and couldn’t move forward with writing
again.
Another way to cultivate this distance is
to adopt the most businesslike attitude we can about our books. Because, if
we’re sticking with publishing as a career…it is
a business. I think that’s where writers
got off-track so many times in the past.
We didn’t understand our contracts, we didn’t understand the nature of
the industry, we didn’t understand our responsibility to our book…which is to
promote ourselves as a brand and work on the next story.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Twitterific
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming)
which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It's the search
engine for writers.
Friend and fellow
mystery writer Margot
Kinberg has compiled a crime fiction anthology: In
a Word--Murder. The ebook retails
for $2.99 and proceeds from its sales benefit Princess
Alice Hospice, in memory of Maxine Clarke, a supporter of and good friend
to the crime writing community. One of
my stories is in the collection, too...my first attempt at short fiction.
:)
I'm also included in
a newly-launched resource for self-publishing authors:
Wordpreneur
Peeps: 107 Successful Indie Publishers.
Eldon Sarte from the Wordpreneur
blog has collected advice from 107 self-published authors and compiled them in
this attractively-priced November
release (currently at $.99). His blog is also a helpful resource for
independent authors.
Have a great week!
7 Tips to Help you
Write More: http://dld.bz/cUmdu @RinelleGrey
Friday, November 22, 2013
Preparing for a Productive Writing Day
By
Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
I’ve always been a big believer in being
prepared (yes, I was a Girl Scout all
those years ago). I don’t like hectic
mornings, so everything is organized the night before to make sure the mornings
go smoothly. My kids know that in the evenings
before bed, they have to have all their homework done, essays printed out, homework collected in
their backpacks downstairs, and have a
handle on what they want to wear the following day. Lunches are made the night before. The more time we invest at night, the better
and more stress-free our mornings are.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
The Ability to Single-Task
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
The past few days haven’t been terrific
and the fault for this lies squarely with me.
So…I dropped my phone in water. Apparently, this is not a good thing to do to
smart phones. Not only did I drop it in
water, I didn’t even realize I’d dropped
it into water. There was no quick
rescue, so the phone was submerged for quite a while. Once I discovered it, I tried sticking it
into a bag of quick-rice, but boy, that thing was dead.
I have also broken a plastic container
that was full of leftovers (yes, this is
hard to do! But somehow…), chipped a bowl, ran into a doorjamb, and burned two
things I was cooking. Even for me, this
is a long list of issues.
The interesting thing is that after my
phone was destroyed (it was actually the last in the series of unfortunate
events), I immediately stopped having these calamities. I’m not going to blame my phone 100%, but it apparently
was a significant contributing factor.
Labels:
multi-tasking,
pomodoro,
single-tasking,
writing
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