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25 Writing & Life Tips For Novelists
1 Write every day. 2 Do not write tomorrow what you can write today. 3 Write as often and as much as you can. Write even when you do not want to. Do not wait for inspiration. As Jack London put it, go...
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A Novel Cannot Be Finished, Only Abandoned
There is writing that is good and tickles the senses and soothes the heart and provokes the mind, and there is writing that is not so good. From my writing experience and from the books I’ve read and...
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9 Signs That You Are Becoming a Writer
Sometimes you have no idea where you are going, but you know you are making progress, because as you walk you see the trees move away from you. 1 Writing is a daily habit, like eating or sleeping. I...
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Artists and Suffering
If you read the biographies of preeminent artists – writers, painters, musicians – you discover an encyclopedia of suffering. Some cut their ears, others drank their sorrows away, a few found life...
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7 Monstruous Activities That Devour a Writer’s Time
‘The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time,’ said Bertrand Russell. ‘Unless you have a novel to write,’ quoth Vincent Mars. 1. Reading about writing Books on writing are helpful, but I don’t think...
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Blogging Versus Keeping a Personal Diary
I have tried to keep a diary for a few years now, but I’ve never got far, until I started blogging. Handwritten diaries are tedious, computer diaries are distracting, both feel like monologues. For...
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I Mean to Say That I Say What I Don’t Mean
“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.” W. Somerset Maugham Give me a pen and a blank sheet of paper and I will invent a story at any time of day. Not all...
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Grandmother Died
Maybe you want to know whether I have cried? * 23 April – Waiting For Grandmother to Die * We’ve called the ambulance and they picked her up like a sack of potatoes and put her in a wheelchair and...
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Should a Writer Buy an E-Book Reader?
You won’t find the answer in the first paragraph, I am afraid. I bought a Kindle when I first made up my mind to become an author, almost four years ago. Since I live in Romania and I had to pay for...
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Are You a Writer?
A writer is an innocent liar, a soother of troubled minds, a gluer of broken hearts, a dreamer of forgotten dreams, an adventurer afraid of heights. Whether he is called a poet, a novelist, a...
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Have You Ever Wanted to Be Someone Else?
One of the reasons why I chose to be a writer was my recurring desire to be someone better, braver, bolder. Stories offer an escape and provide emotional comfort, and by writing them I can become...
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9 Sincere Reasons Why You Should Not Read My Blog
I sincerely think that my blog is rather peculiar, and that you, as a person with plenty of things to do and not much free time, should not bother with it. Read Shakespeare instead. 1 Each time you...
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Searching for an Editor
There comes a time in the writer’s life when he understands that his book can never be finished, only abandoned, and he feels the urge to show it to the world, hoping that it might make him not...
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On Living a Simple Life
I believe that books are written not only on-page, but also off-page. It’s doubtful that anyone who does drugs, goes to parties often, spends hours in front of the TV, watches more movies than he reads...
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Is Isolation Good For an Artist?
I don’t have a problem with people or with the world, but it has always been difficult for me to find a place for myself ‘out there.’ As some of you might know, I am shy and short and frail, a most...
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Is Blogging a Distraction For a Writer?
When I started this blog last year I thought that blogging about writing will help me understand my writing process better, and improve it. But the more posts I write the more I feel that blogging,...
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50-Word Tales #100
The husband returned home from work early and found his wife lying in bed. ‘What’s the matter dear?’ he asked. It seemed to him that she looked slightly unwell. ‘Just tired after housework,’ she said,...
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50-Word Tales #101
He was secretly in love with his pretty neighbor. When she was not at home, he fished with a hook underwear from her clothesline. ‘Mischievous wind!’ he heard her shout sometimes. One day she knocked...
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50-Word Tales #102
She spoke of divorce. Her husband locked the door, seized the key, and crossed his arms. ‘Wife, you won’t leave through that door while I’m alive.’ She shook her head. Then she walked to the window,...
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50-Word Tales #103
Two lovely young women entered a hotel holding hands. A chubby hotelkeeper greeted them. They asked for a room with a double bed. ‘We have many rooms with a single bed available at a good price,’ he...
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