These days I think of myself as a writer. Commercial writing has been my main source of income for the past decade. I have co-authored two non-fiction books, one of which was a bestseller, and most recently I published a children's novel, Dancing on the Inside. However, there was a time in my life when my primary interest in life was the theater. I won't bore you with the reasons I did not become a world famous actor or director (and there are several good reasons for that). However, as a young man I performed in a lot of plays - in community theater, university theater, and professional non-union companies. I also directed a few plays and spent a brief time in theater school. Overall, I managed to do around seven productions a year over the course of roughly fifteen years. So that's over 100 shows under my belt. Looking back on that period, I have sometimes felt that I had made a huge detour in my life. Maybe I should have spent all those evenings and weekends writing inst
Habits are extremely important when starting out your writing. Habits are one of the techniques you can use to avoid procrastinating with your writing. Intentionally establishing writing habits that help you to write is extremely important. Otherwise you will unintentionally establish habits that help you to avoid writing. Many of the habits you need to establish revolve around where and when you will write. But everyone is different. So how do you ensure the habits you establish now will work for you in the future? Here are 5 questions you can ask about your writing to help you determine what habits you want to establish. 1. What type of writing are you going to do? Just as the type of writing you do affects the systems you need, so it will also affect the conditions you require for writing. Characters are extremely important to fiction writing. After all, characters are part of the big three of fiction writing. On the other hand, characters are less important to non-fiction... especi