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The Artist as Narcissist?

I’m a career counselor AND a writer. Being bi-vocational is somewhat akin to being bipolar, in that one is constantly balancing the requirements of two wildly different career skill sets and activities. But, every day I’m laboring diligently to be better at both; so I read, read, read–a lot. Last evening, I was looking for some answers for an adult client’s career dilemma, so I took...

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Just Write the Damn Book!!

For the last two weeks, I have been painfully struggling with working on my second novel.  Not only the novel, but any kind of writing at all. As you can see, it has been over a month since I’ve posted on this blog. I talk so much about the chatterbox inside my head that people sometimes believe I’m hearing voices, but rest assured, I’m not. However, the last month or so, the chatterbox...

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Dancing With Your Reader

The more I write; the more I learn. Writer and reader are much more connected than I ever realized. I find myself searching for the right word, the right analogy. It is a symbiotic relationship, but it’s more than that, because symbiosis represents a permanent state and the writing-reading relationship never remains the same. It’s more like a free-form dance; restraint and abandon, restraint and...

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Writer Stereotypes are Half-Truths

I was all prepared to blog about “old school” writer stereotypes today and then it hit me. Writer typecasts are partially correct, but there’s more; so much more. What is a writer? Strictly defined; it’s a person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or regular occupation. But, I want to add to the definition a bit: a writer is one who can understand and translate the human...

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Beyond Her Book’s Fifth Anniversary Bash

Congratulations to Barbara Vey and the Fifth Anniversary Bash for Beyond Her Book. You can access the celebration here:http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/beyondherbook/ For those who are from the Fifth Anniversary Bash and wish to read my historical fiction, Of Tapestry, Time and Tears about the 1947 Partition of India, leave a comment and indicate whether you wish to have an ebook or a hardcover,...

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The Immortality of Writing

When one arrives at a certain age, it is like the incomprehensible   wilting of a rose. There is the realization that many of your dreams and aspirations will never blossom to fruition and that, in reality, there is very little new wisdom; just new ways of understanding and applying what we already know. I used to believe that teaching was the closest one could get to being immortal; but eventually a...

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Find Your Life’s Theme; Find Your Writer’s Voice

Just like a novel, your life has a theme. As a career counselor, I use Alfred Adler’s early childhood memories to assist my clients in creating a life plan and a broad range of careers which fit that plan. Writers can use this same strategy to become more insightful writers. We all write for different reasons and those reasons usually have a connection to your earliest experiences. Discovering and then...