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The beginning of any work is either going to stress you or satisfy you. There is no in-between. There are times where the writing is forced, uncomfortable and may be hard as German algebra! However, wear some get lost is when you don’t fight through a rough beginning.
Don’t be afraid to challenge, to rework, to reevaluate or even change a point of view for one of your characters! You are the creator and the destroyer of worlds.
Go and do what writing demands.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
I want to talk to you about icebergs.
Everything that is easily visible is always seen at top of it. No one sees the width and depth of the ice, even close up.
The same thing goes with your WIP’s. No one sees how deep it all goes. No one sees the sleepless nights. The crippling self-doubt. The lack of support. The lack of time. The sacrifices of sleep, money and time you didn’t think you had! And most of all, the writing. The creating. The breaking through the walls, jumping the fences to complete the work.
No one sees the work. But they will always have something to say about what they see.
So, give them something to see.
With Love & Ink,
JBHarris
Mark your calendars!
From the success of the Fall 2018 Writing Workshop, there are two workshops planned for the early part of 2019! The first will be in January! The second in late April. will be a Spring session planned for January 2019! The cost for registration is $25, and will cover the cost of your materials, as well as a copy of the book Bend Blank Pages, Volume 1.
Payment must be remitted before January 10th, as the January workshop will be January 12.
The venue accommodates 30 people comfortably. You can register for the workshop by emailing your name to sgwritingservices@icloud.com, as well as through Eventbrite by clicking here.
There will be some surprises as well as some giveaways!
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There is nothing wrong with having honest feedback.
There is nothing wrong with having someone else look at your work with the sole purpose of feedback.
Beta Readers are the secret weapon in any writers’ tool kit. This army of your own enlisting help you to weed out what works, what’s boring and what you need more of. The best analogy I can give comes from a process my grandmother did while baking.
When she would bake cakes or pies, she would make what she called a test cake. When she would do this, she would like a few taste the cake. The purpose of the process was to figure out if the cake needed anything added or taken away: more sugar, less vanilla, don’t cook it so long.
It was the feedback coupled with her expertise made what she created all the greater!
The same is said for beta readers! These people are the secret ingredient to what you need to make your work–before the prices of editing!–as reader desirable as it can be.
A good rule of thumb is after a draft is complete is have a small group of readers (friends, family, classmates) to look over your work purely for feedback! You can do the mechanics and other clean up later.
As Nora Roberts said, “You can’t edit a blank page.”
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