by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
If you’ve been around the fiction-writing-reference block, you’re probably familiar with the concept of GMC… Goal, Motivation, Conflict. (If you aren’t, I strongly recommend you go grab a copy of either Debra Dixon’s book of the same...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
The funny thing about time. I’ve found that most writers I work with have a funny relationship with time. Given any “container” of time, they assume they can do approximately two to four times as much as they’re actually capable of....
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
How do you keep writing? So… how are you doing? In the past week, especially if you live in the U.S., things have been… chaotic, to say the least. For some of us, there is an active despair. Demoralization, depression, rage, grief, all there in a...
by Cathy Yardley | Writing Life
We acknowledged that we were in burnout. We stopped the immediate downward spiral, finishing the stress cycles. We worked on identifying what was keeping us in quickstand. From there, we triaged as much as we could out of our schedules, slashing away at commitments...
