Why You Should Take Your Book Publishing Contracts to a Lawyer

Why You Should Take Your Book Publishing Contracts to a Lawyer

I am currently in talks with a small press about publishing my novel, and they finally gave me a book publishing contract!

While I’m a writer by night, by day, I work as a lawyer, and so I draft and review agreements for a living. When I received my book publishing contract, part of me really wanted to save some money and just review it myself.

But I didn’t.

Writing Prompt: A Child’s Perspective

Writing Prompt: A Child’s Perspective

I began journaling at age 9.  As a child, journaling taught me how to self-soothe and to organize my thoughts and feelings. As an adult, those journals serve as a reminder that children observe a lot more than we give them credit for. I looked back at one of those...
5 Ways to Start Your Story

5 Ways to Start Your Story

I’m taking a really interesting class with a woman named Maxine Clair about how to be present in your life and writing about it.

This week we learned about narrative writing and how to start your story. We were taught five ways to begin a narrative story that I thought would be useful to the Write Practice community.