by Cindy Kochis | Dec 16, 2020 | Memoir, Pearls of Wisdom
One Reason Authors Journal I, like most travelers, keep a journal or at least a log of where I’ve been. For some strange reason I started keeping track of the time of sun rise and sunset, the outside temperature, and the campground location, name and site number. Is...
by Cindy Kochis | Dec 2, 2020 | Pearls of Wisdom
Dancing with the Alphabet One never knows what readers will rave about. Have you written a blog post and felt it could win a Storyteller of the Year award and yet somehow it goes unacknowledged? Then there’s the handful of posts you figured would wither in the...
by Cindy Kochis | Aug 12, 2019 | Member Access Only, Pearls of Wisdom
Uncommitted Consequences More Articles “It depends on what day you ask me! But in the thick of a draft or a revision, I think my favorite advice comes from Patricia Cornwell: To treat your writing like a relationship, not a job.” -Jessica Strawser What are...
by Cindy Kochis | Jul 29, 2019 | Pearls of Wisdom
Write The Shitty First Draft “One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.” -Anne Lamott...