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Message from the President - December 2024 RWR
December is the perfect time to pause and reflect on your accomplishments in 2024. Writing can sometimes feel like a lonely pursuit, but every word written, every manuscript revised or completed, and every manuscript acquired or published is an accomplishment worth celebrating. This is something I do every year as the clock counts down to the start of the New Year, and I encourage you to take pride in your own 2024 journey.
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How to Make the Most of Your Writing Time
By Leslie J.Wyatt
Posted 12/16/2024
Assuming you’ve been able to carve out a dedicated writing time from your allotted twenty-four hours and figured out where you’ll do that writing, congratulations! Those crucial pieces of the overall picture are essential to writing success. With your when and your where now in place, it’s time to address some aspects of how to make the most of that precious window of creativity.
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Goal Setting: Work Smarter, Not Harder
By Diana Georgelos
Posted 12/16/2024
We, as story tellers, are well versed in the importance of setting goals for our characters. Every protagonist ideally has a goal (something they want to achieve) by the end of the story. Over the course of the story, a reader tracks the main character’s progress. They see if the hero/heroine is getting closer to or further away from achieving their goal. And at the climax, they see if the protagonist will finally achieved the goal or not.
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Crafting Goals and Business Plans for Novel Writers: Innovative Approaches and Best Practices
By Lisa Kober
Posted 12/16/2024
The journey of a romance novelist is a blend of creativity, passion, and determination. Like any artistic endeavor, it requires thoughtful goal-setting and structured business planning to thrive in the competitive publishing landscape. By taking a strategic approach to their career, romance writers can nurture their creative ambitions while ensuring sustainable business growth. Below are innovative and best practice strategies for creating successful goals and business plans, ensuring artistic fulfillment and financial success.
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Five Tips for Turning Your Writing Goals Inside Out and Upside Down When You Feel Stuck
By Ann Kellett
Posted 12/16/2024
There’s a lot of great advice for the writing life: write every day, track your progress, write first and edit later, and so on.
But too often, the writing goals that served us well early on suddenly lose their magic. We find ourselves in a creative rut and even the best advice cannot seem to help us make the words flow.
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Chart Your Course: Find Direction and Purpose with Goals
By Kristina Knight
Posted 12/16/2024
Looking Back to Move Forward
For years, I viewed writing as a relentless pursuit of publication, a destination to be reached at all costs. A destination that would have finality. This mindset, while well-intentioned, often left me feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and ultimately unfulfilled. It was as if I was constantly chasing a carrot dangling just out of reach.
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Message from the President - November 2024 RWR
As the calendar year winds down, many of us will find these last months busy both personally and professionally. I’m setting small, attainable goals to help me maintain forward momentum in my writing and personal journeys. Balancing time management with self-care is challenging, but it’s a skill I know I can master to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Whether you’re participating in a writing challenge or pushing forward with your latest manuscript, I encourage you to be creative with your time and your self-care.
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A Writer’s Voice, part 2—Or, One Path to Finding Yours!
By Janet W. Butler
Posted 11/26/2024
In part 1, we talked about the unique writer’s voice—and that, sometimes, it’s hard to define or pinpoint.
How do you know what your particular “voice” is?
How do you identify it?
How do you know it when you hear it?
And can it change?
Last question first, because this particular question seems to be a biggie.
Short answer? Yes…to a point.
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Time is Money: How Financial Management Tools Can Help You Manage Your Time
By Diane Kelly, CPA
Posted 11/26/2024
As a former accountant, I am familiar with financial management techniques. However, it wasn’t until years into my writing career that I had an epiphany - money management and time management have a lot in common, and the same principles apply to both.
How did this epiphany come about? I used to knock out other items on my to-do list each day before beginning work on my novel-in-progress. My philosophy was that getting these pending items out of the way would allow me to relax and focus better on my work without having tasks hanging over me or worrying what urgent matters might be waiting in my in-box.
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Writing In No Time
By Kris Bock
Posted 11/26/2024
So many things demand our time—job, spouse, children, volunteer work, housework. It’s tempting to say, I’ll write during vacation, or when the kids are back in school, or when the kids leave home, or when I retire ….
Yet if you want to be a writer, you must find time to write.
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