By day, I’m an events coordinator and newsletter editor for a college and aside from the obvious skill overlap (editing articles, writing news stories, etc.) I’m amazed at the lessons that cross over into my writing life. Today, I’ll focus on the most important lesson: Time management. I’m a member of the Association of Collegiate Conference and Events Directors-International (ACCED-I) and in their frequent newsletters, I find an array of helpful articles. This one truly caught my eye and applied to my writing life: Time Management as a Collegiate Event Planner by Erica Spencer, Florida Institute of Technology Here are a few of the highlights: “No matter the size of the...
Celebrating!
I’m happy to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Wendy Lawton of Books & Such Literary Agency! I’m very happy to be a part of the wonderful agency and am looking forward to everything that follows. I’ll definitely post on the process and what comes next – but the day job beckons! Thank you all for your constant support and encouragement!
Infrequent blog posts…
Around this time every year, I slowly lose my mind. It is fall event season at the college where I’m the sole event planner. Thus in effort to keep my sanity relatively in check – I need to warn you all that my blogs will be rather infrequent for the next few weeks. I promise to return with book reviews, author interviews and more. Thank you for understanding!
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Today’s Blog Highlights
I’d like to highlight some other fascinating blogs that I’ve seen lately. Just today, there was a great post about Pacing for Thrillers on the Kill Zone, but the tips apply to all genres of writing. Michael Hyatt (Thomas Nelson CEO) gave his diagnosis of the Kindle 3 after using it for a month. I keep watch on all the e-reader reviews since I’m still in the market for one… All week, Rachel Kent at Books & Such has written about Things Writers Should Keep Track Of. Every writer should read this one! I follow 21 blogs through Google Reader and frequent another dozen or so occasionally and there are another...
The Art of War for Writers
James Scott Bell’s “Plot & Structure” is regarded as one of the ultimate writer’s reference books in the industry. And rightly so. Bell has an incredible way with words and with teaching. When I signed up for Bell’s coaching class at the 2010 Summer OCW Conference, I immediately went out and read “Plot & Structure” so I was well versed before the class. But the class came and I learned infinitely more than I could have imagined. So I purchased “The Art of War for Writers,” which is based on Sun Tzu’s 6th century manuscript and adapted for the literary profession. I found “The Art of War for Writers” to...