What Does Your Protagonist Desire?
It’s not that all characters get exactly what they want, the story is about their pursuit of it. What does your hero want?
The Successful Writer’s Personal Hero’s Journey
To be a successful writer is on a personal hero’s journey. To venture on, the writer must take the necessary steps outside the norm, and face the Threshold Guardians.
How do I get back into writing again?
How do I get back into writing again when I haven’t written in at least two years?
Resistance and the War of Art
“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. …
What Did You Learn to become a Professional Writer?
Authoring novels and books is definitely an expedition with pitfalls, lessons, and wins all along the way. Here are a few valuable things things that I learned when becoming a professional writer. I hope some of them will help you in your work.
Writers, we are warriors.
Maybe the Muses demand a price for artistic glory. Perhaps the challenges we face and the obstacles to overcome in the journey to create and get works out is not for the faint.
The Creative’s Journey
Having a creative block in writing, art, or music business? A recent podcast with Steven Pressfield sheds some light on how not to forget the art part of what we do.