Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing

  • Writer’s Block

    I’ve been thinking about Annie’s comment on Monday, and on writing more blog posts about writing. Since I don’t have a guest booked for today, and it is NaNoWriMo, I thought it might be interesting to talk about the great boogeyman that plagues writers. (Or at least gives us nightmares.) Writers’ block. Writer’s block means…

  • NaNoWriMo

    November is National Novel Writing Month, and the annual frenzy of NaNoWriMo. This org encourages writers to push forward on the their work for the entire month of November, with the goal of writing 50,000 words by the end of the month. You can register through the site, and there are prizes available as well…

  • Editing and Carpets

    Things have been quiet around Alive & Knitting the past few days, because I’ve been working on a revision. This is not a bad thing, but it’s always an intense phase. So, naturally, I have an analogy for you. Writing a book is like weaving a tapestry. You choose your colours the way you might…

  • Balance

    For today’s writing and publishing post, I thought I’d talk a bit about balance. A writer’s life is a balancing act, as most people’s lives are. There are tasks that must be done on time, chores that have to be completed regularly and there is the joyous part of doing what we do best. But…

  • Revising Reverted Works

    Last week, in my post Widgets and Books, I was talking about the art of scheduling the writing of a book. I talked about the need for authors to figure out when they’re going to be finished a work before they start writing it, so that the book can be scheduled for production at the…