by Sarah Kuiken | Dec 15, 2021 | Author How-To & Mindset
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” —Richard Bach Steve Martin once said that perseverance is a good substitute for talent. And by golly, I hope he’s right. Talent is sexy and compelling and mysterious. You can’t force talent—you can only hope it...
by Sarah Kuiken | Jul 19, 2021 | Author How-To & Mindset
At the beginning of each year, Kevin Tumlinson and Mark Leslie Lefevbre set down their writerly goals for the year. It’s an effective process if you take your author career seriously, because you’re setting down specific goals that you hope to achieve. None of this...
by Sarah Kuiken | May 31, 2021 | Author How-To & Mindset
Many of us dream of a true writing career. We envision our lives as successful writers: the Instagram-worthy photos of the desk where we release our creative genius, the legions of adoring fans, the critical acclaim … There’s just one problem. The process of actually...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Apr 20, 2021 | Author How-To & Mindset
If you’ve followed D2D online, tuning in to our livestreams and podcasts, you’ve heard me mention my co-worker, Elyssa. She’s brilliant, and I honestly don’t know how we’d get anything done around this place without her. Today happens to be her birthday (happy...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 8, 2021 | Author How-To & Mindset
In the earliest days of my writing career, before it could even be tagged as a “writing career,” I had a particular and persistent vision of what the writer’s life looked like. It was informed by television shows and movies, and by snatches of behind-the-scenes...