Skip to content It’s Friday and in under six hours I’ll be having a fantastic long weekend. Until then, you’re stuck with me and my five favorite cliches. When the general public thinks cliche, chances are they’ll think a catch phrase. When I think cliche, I think things in writing. Let’s count them down: The dumb blonde and … Read more
We all have those moments where the ideas/words/brilliance don’t come. If you’re like me, these times when nothing ends up on the page mean a lot of bitchy behavior until the block passes. If you’re also like me, you like to expedite that process. The question is how? I’ve talked about this before, but that … Read more
As I pointed out on Tuesday, I tweet a lot, so it’s timely that Paper Hangover wants to know who they should follow. Below you’ll find a nice mix of resources plus contributors to my 10K plus tweets. Writer Thesaurus. Angela Ackerman’s other Twitter handle for sharing useful links that pertain to things like description … Read more
Oh the internet. It’s so shiny. So distracting. True fact: As of right now*, instead of working on my revisions, I’m drafting this entry. That’s a litmus test for distraction. Right? Right. So, since I am on a deadline, working on minimal sleep, and borrowing my time from revising, this will be short. (But I’ve … Read more
What writer doesn’t have some sort of ritual to get into the groove of things? I know, I know. The robot kind. Guess what? We’re not talking about robots today. It’s all about me answering Paper Hangover’s Friday Five. I’m forgoing the obvious things here like laptop, notes, and manuscript since it’s kinda hard to … Read more