Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • National Novel Writing Month

    And they’re off! November is National Novel Writing Month and those who participate in NaNoWriMo aim to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. It’s often perceived by writers to be the big push necessary to get that draft done. One of the core ideas is that writers should give themselves permission…

  • Home Again!

    Hello, everyone. I’m back home and catching up. Wow – what a great conference they host at the New Jersey RWA each fall! If you are an aspiring writer and ever have the opportunity to go, please do so. There were many workshops – four or five tracks in parallel, seven at peak times –…

  • A Little Something on the Side

    This week I did an exercise from The Artist’s Way and I’ll tell you about that in a minute. First a bit of backstory, in case you aren’t that familiar with the mechanics of the publishing biz. In my zone of the publishing biz – writing fiction – authors are freelance workers who contract with…

  • TAW Weekly Check-In

    In the midst of all the promo posts, here’s a real one! One of the things I find really interesting about following The Artist’s Way program – because it happens a lot – how often I end up anticipating the next exercise of the book. That’s before I read it. Last week, for example, I…

  • TAW Weekly Check-In #6

    I’m halfway through the twelve week program outlined in The Artist’s Way and have reached the chapter about defending your ideas. “The first rule of magic is containment.” This is a really potent phrase for me, because I think it’s true. JC is referring to the temptation of talking about ideas before they’ve been nurtured…