Tora Writing

Category: Book Writing

  • How to be a Writer without Writing a Book – Take 2

    How to be a Writer without Writing a Book – Take 2

    I first posted about How to be a Writer without Writing a Book about three years ago. I last posted on it about two years ago. If you’re wondering, no, I didn’t quit. I did burn out a bit on the project. Then, about a year ago, the stars came into alignment and I reached…

  • Musings of a Writer without a Book … Yet

    Musings of a Writer without a Book … Yet

    Well, I’ve drafted enough of How to be a Writer without Writing a Book to get feedback. So out to the beta readers it is. Now I’m facing a whole new world of writer-hood: getting published. Initially, my intention was to self-publish, and I still may. However, my writing coach has convinced me that the…

  • Free from Fiction

    After three years, I guess you can say I have a new tradition: Logistics Nazi for Mary Knipple, Organizer of the Independent Editors at the San Francisco Writers Conference. TANGENT: “Logistics Nazi” is a term I came up with over a decade ago to describe my uptight coordination of something like six people to meet…

  • Don’t Let Your Subconscious Hit You on Its Way Out

    Don’t Let Your Subconscious Hit You on Its Way Out

    It is amazing what a person’s subconscious can whack them with. I was talking with one of my coaches trying to work out why I was having such a hard time writing up the sections of my book based on outside contributors. Then I started wondering why I was holding back on delivering the sections…

  • Victory Lap

    You know how it can be so easy to start berating yourself? Well, now is NOT that time. I thought about it and decided that I’d rather share some of my recent accomplishments rather than the drudgery of what I have yet to do. After all, we all have things to do and none of us…

  • How to Be a Writer without Writing a Book

    How to Be a Writer without Writing a Book

    I once wrote a blog about irony. Although I made several interesting and insightful observations, the general point is that I’m one of those people that can’t define the word, but do know when it hits me over the head with a brick. (I am, however, likely to miss the more subtle examples.) For a…