The Writers Chat Room

Category: Sunday Chats

  • Market Research

    Market Research

    Publishers are being bought and sold and auctioned and given up during bankruptcies. The publication you might discover as a potential market for your short story or article may not actually be there by the time you are writing your cover letter or query. Or, it may be there, but run by a whole new…

  • Knowing Where to Start Your 2020 Writing Goals

    Knowing Where to Start Your 2020 Writing Goals

    Knowing Where to Start Your 2020 Writing Goals We aren’t multi-taskers. We might think we are but physically and mentally we cannot be in more than one place doing more than one thing at the same moment in time. To make up for our inability to do several things at once, we can make lists.…

  • Read Deeply and Write Like the World is Ending

    Read Deeply and Write Like the World is Ending

    When you are writing, write with wild abandon. Write as though your life depends upon it. Experiment with your writing. Try poetry. Write an article for a Trade Magazine. Jot down that memory that doesn’t need to be shared.

  • Writerly Goal Setting

    Writerly Goal Setting

    A new year is a time when we can stop the clock and reset it to ground zero. But, not really. We bring victories and failures along with us. We can use those experiences as we begin to make new goals. Let’s talk about 2019 Writerly Goals and new goals for 2020. Personally, I have…

  • A Writer’s Superpower

    A Writer’s Superpower

    In life you have full access to only one mind, your own; and you are also the one person that you cannot externally observe.