Tag Archive for ‘Lisa Romeo Writes’
Five Life Lessons I Learned Writing my New Novel
1. I am not a supermodel. Or a professional soccer player. At times, over the eight long years it took to finish Bird in Hand, I was seized with panic. Look at all those fresh-faced young writers madly producing books, while I grow wrinkled and gray! But then I realized: it doesn’t matter how damn old I am. Unlike some professions, writing does not require that you have dewy skin or the speed of an antelope. All that matters are [...]
Quick Link: Lessons Learned Writing Bird in Hand
This week I did a guest post for Lisa Romeo Writes, a terrific blog about writing and the writing biz. (One of my favorite features on the blog is Lisa’s Friday Fridge Clean-Out, a weekly roundup of interesting and newsworthy links.) I wrote about what I learned in the process of writing Bird in Hand — not about writing, but about life. You can read the post here. An extra incentive to click through: Lisa is giving away a copy [...]
Guest Blog: Lisa Romeo on Dealing with Rejection
Literary essayist, editor, and writing coach Lisa Romeo writes: Writers tend to think of rejection as something done to us by outsiders. We paint it as something we cannot control, as something to be feared and avoided, when in reality, rejection begins with ourselves. Early on. Even before we start writing, we reject our own creativity. We dismiss our ideas, our skills, our imagination before we give them a chance to work themselves out on the page. We squash the [...]
