by sharon zink | Apr 25, 2017 | articles, emotion, inspiration, resilience, writing tips
Humans are hardwired for connection and it’s how we thrive – so how do we balance that very basic need for community with the lone wolf nature of our writing lives? For one thing, we can reach out to others, including our fellow authors who understand...
by sharon zink | Apr 11, 2017 | articles, emotion, inspiration, resilience
Are you feeling discouraged? The beastie called Discouragement can darken our door during long creative projects, when we’re going through a tough period of rejections, or even when we publish a book and don’t get the feedback we wanted from the world....
by sharon zink | Feb 14, 2017 | articles, emotion, mindfulness, writing tips
There’s a lot of talk these days about ‘mindfulness’, about staying in the present moment and being here now. Long before it became fashionable, I learned about this practice as a key tenet of Buddhist spirituality, back when I was on the path to...
by sharon zink | Feb 7, 2017 | articles, productivity, Uncategorized, writing tips
Last week, an amazing and fairly rare thing happened to me – I received a wonderful email from the lovely Lorna Howarth of The Write Factor, a publishing company I hope to partner with soon, saying how much she loved my novel, Welcome to Sharonville, and...
by sharon zink | Jan 31, 2017 | #writingmojomarch, articles, productivity, writing challenge, writing tips
Are you feeling a bit flat and uninspired? Do you feel discouraged by your work and worried that you’ll never get published? Are you procrastinating or generally so down about the state of the world that the idea of being creative feels overwhelming right now?...
by sharon zink | Jan 24, 2017 | articles, writing tips
The history of authors dabbling in politics and matters of social justice is a long one – from Swift’s sardonic attacks in Gulliver’s Travels to French novelist Simone de Beauvoir’s side-hustle as a magnificent, scholarly feminist which gave us...
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