Happy Birthday, fellow Leos!
Sue Monk Kidd, Kirby Larson, Liesl Shurtliff
and I almost share a birthday. And probably a whole bunch of others I'm leaving out.
(Leos should stick together. We are fierce.)
I hope some of their Writer Mojo rubs off on me--
on all of us this month!
When I first read this, I shared it on my blog.
Years ago.
Sharing again here. Great advice from a fellow August author.
The Ten Most Helpful Things I Could Ever Tell Anyone About Writing
(Thinking about Kidd's collages reminds me of my Pinterest boards. That's where I gather things to help my writing. I'm not much of a collage maker.)
One of my favorites from her list of helpful things:
Hurry slowly.
"Getting the pace of a story right keeps me up at night. I have a horror of sitting on a plane, next to someone reading my book, and seeing her flip over to see how many pages are left in the chapter. You want a reader so caught up in the spell of a story it would never occur to her to pull herself away and count how many pages she had to read before she could stop."
Thanks for the link. Good one!
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