I hope that you, my fellow published and aspiring writers, really do see your writing life as a business. You are the president, the CEO, the principal player, the monarch (in some of your cases)–call yourself what you will. You could choose to just let things happen. To not take yourselves seriously. To [...]
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Blog: Robin Brande (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Excellent new installment in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s continuing series, the Freelancer’s Survival Guide. This week, it’s more on negotiation–including understanding the basics of the contracts you sign. Remember, as Kris Rusch and her husband Dean Wesley Smith drill into our heads at the workshops they teach: “No one will ever care about your career [...]
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Hi! You thought I was in the wilderness, didn’t you? I’m in between wildernesses at the moment–we’re hiking and driving our way northward so it’s not just endless days in the car. But we’ve finally passed into Wyoming, where bigger wilderness awaits. Anyway. Wanted to take a moment to give you all [...]
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Another excellent post from multiple award-winning novelist and short story author Kristine Kathryn Rusch about the business side of writing. This week’s installment, how to get paid. And if you haven’t read the previous installments yet, take the time to catch up on the whole collection. For those of you who want to making [...]
Listen to me gentle readers of Robin’s blog.(The not so gentle readers should listen, too.)
Robin is speaking TRUTH.
This time in fact I am. Thanks for confirming.
Thanks as always for the link. I especially appreciate the part about removing access to the internet, email, or other distractions. It is much too easy for me to dive into those when I am stuck at a particular point in my writing. Rather than facing the block, I tend to ignore it. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help. More and more, I remind myself that the first step in this writing business is actually to write.