Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! I need to warn you that this is one of those posts I have mentioned before that has affiliate links in it. Clicking them costs you nothing, but may earn me a small payment. 🙂 This was supposed to have been published yesterday, but apparently, I … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Audio and Visual Media Influences
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Writer’s Journal: Stress relief
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! I need to warn you that this is one of those posts I have mentioned before that has affiliate links in it. Clicking them costs you nothing, but may earn me a small payment. 🙂 ~~~***~~~ As a writer and small business owner, I face a … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Stress relief
Writer’s Journal: Plotting vs. Pantsing
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ I searched my previous Writer’s Journal posts to see if I had written about this topic, but could not find where I had, so I decided to write about it this week. I have, in the past, been what’s referred to as a pantser. I … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Plotting vs. Pantsing
Writers Journal: Are you always working?
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! This is one of those posts that has links in it to items at Amazon. They are affiliate links. They cost nothing for you to click on them, but I might get a small payment from them. ~~~***~~~ I was speaking to my sister-in-law recently, and … Continue reading Writers Journal: Are you always working?
Writer’s Journal: Changes
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ I’m sure I’ve written before about changes. As we all know, change is hard. At least for some of us, it is. Even positive changes can make things difficult for a while. Negative changes are even worse. As I mentioned in last week’s post, I … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Changes
Writer’s Journal: Benefits of working for yourself
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ As a full-time writer, I work for myself. This means that I set my own schedule, I decide when and where I work, how hard I work, how much I produce, and everything else that comes along with working/having a job. I’m the boss. Wait … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Benefits of working for yourself
Writer’s Journal: Spring 2019 Goals Update
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ We have finally reached the end of the first quarter of 2019. The sun is finally shining after two or three days of cloudy, cold, and rainy weather. I can’t tell you how much I need that sunshine at this point. Anyway, I thought this … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Spring 2019 Goals Update
Writer’s Journal: My writing space
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ I’m sure I’ve mentioned my home office once or twice, but I thought it might be nice to give you some idea of what the room looks like. 🙂 I live in a house that was built in 1910. The floors are, by and large, … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: My writing space
Writer’s Journal: Multiple Streams of Income
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ When I went full time as a writer, one of the pieces of advice I heard was to have multiple streams of income. At first, I wasn’t sure what was meant by that, but as I listened and observed more, I began to understand. Everything … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: Multiple Streams of Income
Writer’s Journal: When you make a mistake and can’t fix it
Welcome back to Austen Promises and the Writer's Journal! ~~~***~~~ I have been known to make mistakes in my life. Lots of them. It could be said, and probably has in some circles, that if something can be screwed up, I can do it. Matter of fact, I have said that of myself, though I … Continue reading Writer’s Journal: When you make a mistake and can’t fix it