by Joe Bunting |
Several times a month, writers ask me, “How can I balance blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, Goodreading, and all the other stuff I’m supposed to do to build my platform, while also focusing on my writing? I have a full time job, a family, and a cat. I just don’t have time for all that other stuff.”
Writers today are overwhelmed, frustrated, and let’s be honest, a little pissed off. Why do we have to build a platform anyway? Can’t we just focus on writing?
![The Creativity of Children [writing prompt]](https://thewritepractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/creativity-children.jpg)
by Joe Bunting |
PRACTICE
Spend fifteen minutes free writing about the creativity of children.
When you’ve finished, post it in the comments and comment on a few other practitioners’ pieces.
by Joe Bunting |
Yesterday, I quit the story I was working on. I tried to start something new but then hated the new idea and quit it, too.
I go through these periods every once in a while when I hate all my writing ideas. Even writing this post was hard. Every sentence I wrote, I hated. Has this ever happened to you? How do you handle it?
What do you do when you hate your writing?
by Joe Bunting |
I asked Ted Dekker how long it takes for an author to find their voice.
“It takes four to five novels,” he said. So if the average novel is about 80,000 words, then you have to write 320,000 to 400,000 words before you find your voice.
by Joe Bunting |
This month, we’re partnering with Story Cartel to host the Covering the Classics Contest (wow, that’s a lot of C’s), a contest to re-imagine the covers of ten classic books. This is part of Story Cartel’s new book club, an online community to read and discuss the classic books of yesteryear.
By the way, if you want to brush up on the classics, plus get ten classic books completely free, you should check out the Story Cartel Book Club.
If you could re-imagine the covers of classic books, what would they look like? This is your chance to put your personal mark on some of the world’s most revered books. Sound interesting? Read on for the rules…
