No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Robert Frost
Monday Motivational
Saturday Story Prompt
Instead of finding your pumpkins smashed after Halloween, you find that someone carved a message into the back of them: “Please help me.”
Three Houses Press Takes Nanowrimo
Learn more about our authors and their upcoming Nanowrimo journeys!
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days.
J.K. Rowling
Building Relationships with Booksellers
Establishing and maintaining good relationships with booksellers is an important factor in the success of a book, especially for authors who are still finding their footing. A good librarian or bookseller who knows you and believes in you might take the time to put your book on a recommended list, or point it out to a customer who doesn’t have a title in mind.
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
Four Ways to Combat Writer’s Block
A writer’s worst fear is a bout of writer’s block. Here are our four tips for getting out of the funk and back to your work in progress.
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One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing–writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
Lawrence Block
Toxic Romance: Consent
In the wake of #MeToo revelations, it became clear that the way we treat sexual violence and victims of sexual violence in this country needs to change. Many blamed the media. Many more blamed the victims. And some—including former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton—blamed romance novels.
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I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
