It’s back—my annual list of holiday gifts that any writer on your list will love! Writers can be hard to shop for, what with them being bleary-eyed and stuck in alternate realities most of the time. But never fear, my gigantic list of gift ideas will surely have just the thing for that hard-to-shop-for writer […]
home office
Gifts for Writers – 2022 – On the RMFW Blog
It’s the time for happy holidays and merry everything! Got a writer on your gift-giving list this year? Hop over to my blog post on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s blog this month for a giant list of gifts any writer would love to receive, and you’ll win at gift-giving this holiday season! Click here: […]
Why I Love Being a Writer
Lists are great. Lists can keep you organized, remind you of your priorities, or prevent you from making a faux pas (by forgetting to invite Aunt Myrtle to the birthday party, for instance). They help you remember to pick up yogurt at the grocery story, and they can show you how many more editing changes […]
Perfect Writing Conditions and Other Fantasies
It happened again. I looked out my office window this morning, and there was no sign of the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, palm trees swaying in a salt-tinged breeze, or seabirds swooping over frothy waves. Instead, I was greeted by my normal view of my Colorado neighbors’ houses, fresh snow dusting last week’s old […]
10 Tips for Working at Home
This pandemic has created a new army of at-home-workers, most of whom didn’t choose or want this new experience of working from home. But many of us have been doing this for years. We’ve tried (and abandoned) a bunch of tricks over the years for staying focused on work. If you’re one of the new […]
The Good News and Bad News about Writing at Home
By Kelley Lindberg I’ve been doing freelance writing from home for fifteen years, and I absolutely love it. But working at home isn’t for everyone. Plenty of people I know freely admit that they lack self-discipline, and that they would miss the structure or the social environment of a regular workplace. So I’ve come up […]
