• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Challenge Question

    Seems I Confused An Issue… No surprise, huh? (grin) On the three Challenges that we run on Teachable, the Great Publishing Challenge, the Great Challenge (for short stories), and the Great Novel Challenge, you can start at any time. That’s why I suggested that starting the first of February would be a good way of going in the challenges. That way you go from February to February to get the Lifetime Subscription, or if nothing else, get your year off to a great start. You can sign up at any time on the challenges. Then when you are ready to start, just tell me you are starting. Second question I…

  • On Writing,  publishing,  Topic of the Night

    Topic of the Night: Help Getting Through the Time of Great Forgetting

    Help Getting Through the Time of Great Forgetting Every year now for the last three or four years I have talked about something I notice with beginning and early-career writers. It happens like this: Writers are all excited at the first of the year, make resolutions, plans, challenges. All great with great intentions for their coming year of writing and production. And for months, things are working great. Somewhere around the last of April to the first of June, life from the outside starts to intrude and the writing takes a back seat, slowly, over weeks or a month. And then the writing is forgotten for the most part, or…