Before you can move forward with your writing career, leave behind pernicious myths of writing and publishing, so you can travel forward lighter and faster. Here’s myth buster, author and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp, to dispel five more writing myths.
Before you can move forward as a writer, it’s important to leave behind many of the durable writing myths that slow progress as well as set you up for disappointment and frustration. Here are the first five of ten by author and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
How did you spend your April? How did you channel your creativity? Journey with author and poet Catharine Bramkamp and explore her fun expression.
In these rule breaking times, we need a different approach to how we drag our books across the finish line. As artists, writers can approach our books with the same spirit as artists who create public art. Because a book IS public art.
Who hasn’t had nightmares of losing their work? What do you do when you’ve lost weeks, months, years of work? Explore the pain and perils of starting over with Catharine Bramkamp.
You need to promote your book , but as much as publishers would like to hire hoards of marketing professionals, few publishers have the budgets for such experts. Sadly, that mythical happy place where an author just creates books and bitches about the cover, are over.
In the New Year, now is a good time to take a post holiday review. Pull out your journal and use these questions as prompts, by novelist and writing teacher, Catharine Bramkamp.
Most writers journal because when it comes to writing, we are all in. We work on our novels while waiting for the traffic light to change. We keep journals handy by our beds. What else can journaling do?
She experimented with the coaching cliche: what would you do if you could not fail? Then discovered what happened when she did fail.
If you are a Millennial and certainly if you are a Digital Native, you have never known life without cell phones. An afternoon without our phones can seem like a night without your binky.
Social media feels less like a free-for-all democracy and more like trench warfare. You must have noticed — the war has escalated, and the soldiers, excuse me, artists, are sacrificed daily in a war of attrition.
One of the more difficult tasks for writers is managing the boring bits: editing, especially editing that third draft, oh and copy editing, line editing, and well, any editing.
We, as writers and artists, need to return to reading material that requires a bit more effort than watching cute cat videos. Okay, a lot more effort. Why? I’ll tell you…
Why Disappointing Books Are Still Helpful. I was intrigued by the promise of a newly released book on starting a new career at sixty. But I was disappointed.
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