Writing Life Lessons—Write From the Heart

by Bruce Brady @BDBrady007

There's never been a better time to be a writer.

There’s never been a better time to be a writer.

Newspaper and magazine publishers are closing their doors. Large, traditional book publishers are consolidating, merging, and discontinuing some imprints. Booksellers are going out of business.

Wait! Didn’t I say there’s never been a better time to be a writer?

Writing Life Lessons—The Importance of Including Family in Your Writing Life

By Bruce Brady @BDBrady007

Writing is hard work.

Writing is hard. Harder for some than others, but still hard.

After college, I didn’t write anything other than marketing and sales pieces. It was more than 30 years later when I was led to write a script. It was based on fact, but I created a drama to express that fact. I was excited to write this because my real love is fiction—especially fiction that helps my readers learn how to positively deal with life.

One of the first lessons I learned is that writers need to be surrounded by encouraging people who also hold them accountable. The best situation exists when those people include your family.

Writing Life Lessons—Is The Way You Write, Right?

by Bruce Brady @BDBrady007

I struggle with editing while writing my first draft. I can’t help it. When I see that something could be done better, I stop and work on it until I’m satisfied or exasperated. This prevents me from producing more than about 500 words an hour—and often less.

In an effort to overcome this, I entered NaNoWriMo this year. I hoped the pressure of writing 50,000 words in 30 days would motivate me to ignore all those editing opportunities. And just to make it more interesting, I have the added pressure of a schedule that will allow only 15 to 20 writing days.

Today is November fifth and I’ve only written about 500 words. To be fair to myself, I didn’t get started until the third and I’ve had a couple of urgent life issues to deal with. Still, I’ve had two and half days to produce and only managed to pound out 500 words.