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Ten Things I Learned On My Writers Retreat

By on January 23, 2014 in Rachel Hauck, Writer's life

I had to escape. Get away.

For some reason my WIP just wasn’t coming together. And I am four weeks from deadline.

I had to start over… again.

Now I have a great office at home but between the internet, my husband and dog, and just all those little homey interruptions, I decided to break away.

I rented a room up at Teen Missions in Merritt Island.

I packed up, drove 40 minutes up the road and spent three days writing like crazy!

Here’s a few things I learned for making the most of your personal writing retreat.

1. Go some place near by. Traveling is emotional and physically draining. The closer your retreat to your home, the better. Make the retreat short rather than long. I left on a Tuesday morning and was plenty ready to return home by Friday noon.

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Writing For The Long Haul

By on January 9, 2014 in Book Therapist, Rachel Hauck, Writing Life

No one wants to be a one hit wonder.

You know, write that first book, or first series, and then struggle to find more success.

I was in this boat after the Nashvegas books.

Not that they were a break out… in fact, they weren’t at all.

So I had to decide what to write next that caught my publisher’s eye.

I was blessed to be at a house that believed in giving an author more than a one-contract chance.

But if I didn’t find some success soon, there was no reason for my publisher to continue with me.

I was writing chick lit but it was dying a quick death as a sub romance genre.

At an ACFW conference, I braved a conversation with my publisher. “What can I do to turn things around?”

“Well,” he said, “we’re not quite sure how to brand you.”

This really confused me. I wrote chick lit. Romance. How was it hard to brand me?

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Let The Story Tell The Message

By on January 2, 2014 in Editing Basics

Driving down the road the other day, I had a few minutes with Talk Radio.

I tuned in to the middle of a Glenn Beck Show and he was commenting about Disney, and how they’ve left their values and morals.

I think… I’m not sure. But he went on to say.

“The field is wide open for anyone to come in and take their place.”

I’m paraphrasing a bit, but as Glenn went on, he was saying how there is room for creative, talented artist, screenwriters, entrepreneurs to step up and tell interesting stories.

Take the place of Disney?

I don’t know, but when Disney started, there WAS no Disney.

He was completely overshadowed but the muscle studios of Hollywood in his day. RKO. Universal. The might MGM.

But Walt knew who he was, knew what he wanted to do and he did it.

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The Cost Of Writing

By on December 26, 2013 in Editing Basics

(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! You Are Reading A Throwback blog from 2011) We spend a lot of time here at My Book Therapy and in the writing industry talking about craft, networking, marketing, promoting, and the general way to write a book. Panster, plotter, planster (plotter and panster combination.) But what we don’t discuss much is the cost of giving your life to writing. Especially to writing fiction. There’s a price tag, and while I love what I do, there are days I “feel” the price I’ve paid. I have no co-workers. I sit in my lovely tower, which I adore, alone every single day. Sometimes the phone never rings for me. I may not get a personal email or friendly phone call for days. My family lives out […]

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