Best Writing Advice: It’s Skills, Not Genre, That Determines Writing Success
‘What’s Your Favourite Popsicle?’ By Archanaa I stared at the red circle on my calendar. I had three weeks to submit my short story. The idea of participating in a writing competition for the first time scared and excited me at the same time. However, I still had not finalised the genre of my short […]
Best Writing Tip I’ve Ever Received: ‘Don’t Value Your Time’
by Luciana Patri ‘Wanna be successful? Don’t value your time.’ – read the daring title of a video by Teal Swan, one of my favourite contemporary spiritual teachers. It sounded so counterintuitive that I immediately clicked on the play icon and kept my eyes glued to the screen for the following fourteen minutes. Up until […]
Advice for Writers: Rejection is Just a ‘No’
By Kathleen Marple Kalb Rejection is bad, but the fear of it is worse. Too many good writers are afraid to put their work out for consideration because they’re afraid of what will happen. Or they’ve received a few rejections, and they fear the pain of more. Well, as a multi-published author with about 200 […]