Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Six Tasks Part 2 – Forming Alliances

    N.B. – This is a continuation of yesterday’s post, both from a workshop I taught in January to Toronto Romance Writers. Please read Six Tasks before continuing with today’s post. The other option I mentioned for balancing your pie chart is that of working with other professionals. Historically, this was what authors did. If we…

  • Six Tasks Part 1 – The Chart

    Several weeks ago, I taught a full day workshop on writing and publishing. I’ve decided to post some excerpts from the workshop here on the blog – although attendance at the workshop was really good, everyone in the world was not there. You might have missed it. This segment – Six Tasks – was really…

  • Phew!

    Home again, after teaching a full day workshop at Toronto Romance Writers on Saturday. I think it went well – I had fun, anyways – but now it’s back to my regular writing schedule. I like to teach and interact with people. It gets me out of my little writing cave and always gives me…

  • Resolutions

    Do you make resolutions at the beginning of each year? Do you stick to them? I tend to do a review in December of the year that has just passed, making mental lists of what worked and what didn’t work. From that, I try to work out ways to improve my life or my work…

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy new year, everyone, and all the best to you and yours! Here’s to a wonderful, healthy and happy 2012 for everyone. 🙂 (Did you know that 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar? It doesn’t start until February…)