Deborah Cooke: Author

Tag: writing life

  • 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…

  • TAW Week # 5 Check-In

    Am I the only one doing The Artist’s Way this time? One of the things that I really like about this program is that it doesn’t provide a simple answer. Because of the many exercises, it’s very personal – you can do the program over and over again, finding something new each time. One thing…

  • Brave New World

    Welcome to my first adventure into author-driven digital publishing. As so many authors have done – and many more undoubtedly will do – I’ve decided to self-publish some backlist works of mine for which I have the rights. This first one is only available on Amazon for Kindle, although I’d be happy to add other…