Posts Tagged ‘ be ’

Your Writing Life - Are You Too Dependent on Input From Other People?

Dec 15th, 2008 | By Lucia Zimmitti | Category: Featured Articles

If you’ve made it past your teens, you’ve learned that denial doesn’t work in relationships. Pretending to be someone you’re not will only catch up with you in a complicated, unpleasant way at some point. The same holds true for your relationship with your writing self. Telling yourself you have a different writing personality than [...]



How You Write - Are You a Deadline Junkie?

Dec 6th, 2008 | By Lucia Zimmitti | Category: Latest Articles

Imagine that you’re being interviewed right before you give your Pulitzer acceptance speech (the National Book Award ceremony is next week). The reporter asks, “Oh Fabulous One, what kind of writer are you?” You think: dreamy, inquisitive, creative, esoteric, ephemeral… but it becomes painfully clear that you misunderstood the question.
The reporter wants to know about [...]