I’m sure that in the last seven days, you set several goals. Some of those you feel confident you can achieve. Others appear to be quite a stretch. It’s like trying to run a marathon on hot coals with no shoes. No way in blazes you’ll finish that race. Don’t worry. There is hope, so keep reading. Now comes the fun part. You get to throw each of those goals on the chopping block and whack away. The intent is not to destroy those goals you worked so hard last week to set, but rather to chop them up into manageable pieces. You wouldn’t think of putting an entire tree trunk in the fireplace all at once. Neither should you think of doing that with your goals. You have to […]
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Giving Thanks – The MBT Voices Ezine hits the stands!
A year ago, right now, I was flat on my back in bed, in terrible, unabating pain. I had slipped a disk in my neck while shoveling and within hours was in the fetal position. I stayed that way for three weeks, and I am still in weekly therapy to maintain healing. I remember, at one point of too many sleepless nights, just weeping with fatigue and crying out to the Lord for relief. It was then I remembered the testimony of a fellow author who had struggled with devastating life-altering pain and how she coped with it. She praised God. I’ll never forget her words as she told me how she turned her eyes upward in her darkest hour, and despite the absence of any relief before her, she […]
Read the RestMake 2012 Count, Part 1: Take Time to Set Goals!
Are you planning what you want to accomplish in 2012 yet? If not, you should be. Want to get published? Plan for it. Want to write that knockout novel? Great. What are you setting in place that will insure you get there? Over these next three weekends, I’ll walk you through what you need to do to make 2012 a banner year of accomplishment, satisfaction and fulfillment. How will you know where to go and what to do if you don’t take time to mentally MapQuest your year? That just wouldn’t be right. You owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and your future readers to set yourself up for success. Ready to build your stellar year? Let’s get started.
Read the RestCounting the cost of the writing life
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 of my state. I don’t have children. My life is carved out perfectly […]
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