“Description Block”

  I’m grateful not to be the sort of writer who suffers from the dastardly “Writer’s Block”—I can always write something, though it may be so lousy I throw it out later or spend many too many hours rewriting it.  I suffer instead from a related condition I think of as “Description Block.” It’s not … Read more…

Managing Hope Within Rejection

It’s a fact—writers get rejected a lot. We work in a subjective business where there are people who don’t like our work—at every level. In the beginning it’s agents, then it’s editors, then there are reviewers and eventually readers. They all reject us sometime or another. Yet some rejections hurt a whole lot more than … Read more…