Tag: writer’s life
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On Writing When You Are “Too Busy”
Tips for how to write more, even when you are “too busy” for writing.
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On How I Broke Down When Writing Feedback Hurt (And Won)
How I turned a breakdown over negative feedback from an editor into an opportunity to grow as a novelist.
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On Why Writing Is So Damn Hard
Writing is so damn hard. While that may come off as me prepping for a whiny diatribe on the travails of the writer’s life, it actually constitutes me launching into a bit of a love poem
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Day 31 – Productivity& The Collapse of Time
Productive days are the best kind. The total absorption into material and storytelling becomes meditative. The devotion to ideas and evolution of that story sparks a magic. When it was all over, I couldn’t even remember which Writer’s Studio day it was. In the midst of it all, my brother and I even managed to…
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Day 30 – The Value of Keeping Scenes Simple
Day 28 and 29 got lost somewhere in the morass of trying to set the final scene of The Woman On The Wall. Forty-eight hours of drop-off in writing output had one evil source—me, trying to overcomplicate things. The terrible, beautiful part was all I had to do was look at tools I teach other…
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Day 25 – The Teacher
As a writer, I have found nothing more aggressively instructive in the best of ways than teaching creative writing to others. Unless you’re wealthy by other means, a writer’s life requires a day job or a side hustle to make the pieces fit together. Not to get all cheesy, but teaching writing is really the…
Robin Rivers 