This week’s topic at the MFRW’s 52-Week Blog Challenge is a tricky one. Fear of failure. Are we our own worst enemies? When the topic of success and failure comes up, my thoughts generally drift toward writing because other than my family, it’s the most important part of my life. I can’t say I’ve ever…
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Keep it Courteous #MFRWauthor
Giving and taking advice: How it can hurt. That’s the topic this week in the MFRA 52-Week Blog Challenge. The biggest way advice can hurt, both the giver and the receiver, is if the advice isn’t asked for. Though your intentions might be good, offering advice that isn’t requested will usually lead to hard feelings….
Writing Enriches Life #MFRWauthor
For an author, does life exist outside of writing? That’s the topic this week in the MFRA 52-week blog challenge. As much as I love writing, my answer is a definite yes, there is life outside of writing. Writing is one of the most important parts of my life, though not as important as my…
Who’s Worth it? #MFRWauthor
Who would you kill or die to have dinner with? That is the question this week on the MFRA 52 Week Blog Challenge. For me, this one is short and simple. Other than possibly a deceased loved one, I truly can’t think of anyone I would kill or die to have dinner with. How about…
Bucket Lists, Goals, or Everyday Living? #MFRWauthor
This week’s MFRA 52 Week Blog Challenge is Bucket Lists: Have or Have Not? First, I want to say that bucket lists are fine for some people, and if having one and calling it such works for you, then I think that’s great, but personally, a bucket list isn’t for me. You know how certain…
The Shower System #MFRWauthor
Unless I’m in the shower, I can never be sure where creativity will strike me. The shower is the one place that ideas always come to me. If I’m genuinely stuck at a particular place in a story, I have been known to take a shower just to figure out what should happen. Strangely, the…
Put Yourself in the Story by Becoming Someone Else #MFRWauthor
Writing a story is sort of like being one actor in a play with many characters. You have to put yourself in the story by becoming each character. Often that means placing aside your personal beliefs and emotions so that you can think like characters who are completely different than yourself. If every character was…
Keep It Casual – #MFRWauthor
The answer to the latest MFRA 52-Week Blog Challenge question is easy for me. Dressing up is a chore. I strongly prefer casual clothes to anything formal. If I have someplace to go that requires dressing up, I generally need to go out and buy an outfit because it has been so long since the…