How to Make Time for Writing for Busy People

Yellow Plastic Wristwatch

Over the past week, several writer friends have complained about how they struggle to make time to write. “What’s the problem?” I asked. “I don’t have time,” Tom whined. “I am so busy!” Grabbing handfuls of his hair in each fist, he asked, “How will I ever finish my literary novel about an illiterate librarian…

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Write Is a Verb, People

"Never Stop Dreaming" Written on a Scrap of Paper

    Write is a verb.  Writer and writing are nouns.  To be a writer or produce writing, you have to write. There’s no other way to succeed in putting words on a page unless you dictate your ideas or story to someone, which makes you a dictator and might lead some people to believe…

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To Blog, or Not to Blog, That Is the Question for Writers

Typewriter That Has Typed Blog

At some point, every writer asks himself whether the time has come to create a website and start to <insert drum roll> blog. It’s a difficult question—not just because the time needed to blog could be spent on a writer’s chosen writing project—but because once started, a writer must continue to do so until he…

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