by christawojo@gmail.com | Apr 6, 2023 | blog, Uncategorized
All writers want to open their story with a killer first line. What makes a great opening line? It’s not easy to define. Some say the best first lines must encapsulate the entire theme of the story. Other say it must establish the character, time, place, and...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 23, 2023 | Artist's Way, blog, Uncategorized
This is an AI-free blog. NOTE: These posts are inspired by The Artist’s Way, a 12 Step Process to recovering your creativity by Julia Cameron. You can read all about it here. CREATIVE ABUNDANCE In my post The Problem with Writers and Money, we talked about...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 8, 2023 | blog, Uncategorized
No one will respect your writing time if you don’t. Sometimes it’s hard to tell why we are doing something and even harder to figure out where to draw the line. For example, someone asks you for a favor during your writing time. You say yes, even though...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Dec 8, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized, Writing Classes and Coaching
We are pleased to invite all fiction authors (published or unpublished) to our annual Author Year End Review for 2022. Now that we’re about to close out 2022, it’s important to process all that happened (or didn’t happen) for us as writers this year. We need to...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized
Growth is uncomfortable. It’s messy. It hurts. Sometimes it feels like everything is falling apart. We are losing grip on who we are. The ground is caving beneath us. This is a good sign. Nothing is worse for creativity than being stagnant. Growing pains mean...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Nov 18, 2022 | blog, Motivation, Uncategorized
This year, I published my first full-length novel called Oblivion Black. Members of the Writers’ Mastermind witnessed me slaving over this manuscript in our weekly co-writing sessions since our virtual writing group began two years ago. They also know that I...
