A surefire way to never finish your novel. “A plan executed imperfectly now, is better than a plan executed meticulously never.” I’m not sure who said this (Elizabeth Gilbert?), but I think there’s a lot of truth in this quote that relates to writing. I’ve always wanted to write a book, but because I wanted …
I used to think that writing a 300-page novel was the hard part. But have you ever tried getting strangers to buy, read, and review your book? I’m one week into promoting my novel and let me tell you, writing a book is fun—marketing it? Not so much. I have the utmost respect for successful …
I originally wrote Lumiana between October and December 2013, fresh out of college trying to live it up in California’s Bay Area. As luck would have it, my first boss was a veteran author, one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, and he gifted me with the best advice to get me started: Sit …
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” (Credit: Copyblogger, Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well)
It’s a beautiful life… well, you won’t always see it that way. In my line of work it’s hard not to lose faith in humanity, but even if you didn’t choose a career in the non-profit sector, you just need to turn on the TV to be inundated with everything that’s wrong with this world. To ensure …
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