Jen's Writing Journey

Grr. I was so looking forward to getting my notebook this week. I should have it in the next month. Not fair!

• Fear and Shame I was listening to Stephen King's book On Writing this morning on my hour-long commute to work. He spoke of the early stories he wrote, and for a few minutes that made me question whether I really have the writing bug. Does the fact that I didn't start writing until......
• Writing Roundup, August 21 We've got a lot of interesting news posts this week in addition to the regular blog suspects. The Business of Writing The Limits of Control This article from the American Journalism Review provides a good synopsis of the ethics policies and guidelines major newspapers are asking their reporters to follow......
• Writing Roundup, January 29 The Business of Writing Craft Fiction Freelancing Platform The Business of Writing Top Authors Await Ebook Bonanza The Times looks at how many British authors are waiting to sell their backlists on the long-awaited Apple tablet. (On a related note, I can't imagine that the price tag of the......
• NaNoWriMo I decided not to participate in NaNoWriMo.Writing 50,000 words in a month would be a tremendous success and a huge learning experience. It is a very important exercise to do one of these Novembers. But I decided that this was not the right November for me. Right now I'm focusing......
• Plans for 2010 In 2010, I'm going to be focusing more on building a client portfolio, so I'm making a few changes to my schedule here on the blog. You'll still find my weekly writing roundups here on Fridays. And I'll be posting each Wednesday on topics important to we writers. This week,......

• How to Go Into Debt to Get Out of Debt This really sounds like the ultimate oxymoron, but one of the best ways to get out of debt is to go a little bit further...
• Setting and Keeping Goals The best way for people to keep motivated on their journey for weight loss is to create very specific goals and to reference them at...
• Growing Up Getting Green is growing really fast. For all intensive purposes we've been up for a bout a week, and the amount of traffic we've been...