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Drop Your “Vision of Perfection” and Write to Completion

June 22, 2010

oday I ran up against the nemesis called "Vision of Perfection" while I was working on my novel. VoP is a foe I have encountered before and thought I had permanently defeated, but today she showed up once again and tried to derail my work. Vision of Perfection or VoP works like this. You...

The Naming of Things

June 17, 2010

A writer friend of mine recently had an epiphany while running on a treadmill. The name of a collection of stories she has been working on came to her as she ran. While she caveated this revelation with the fact that she wants to...

The Serendipity of the Moment: A Writing Lesson from Elizabeth George

June 16, 2010

A few weeks ago I was at Books Inc. in Alameda, California where Elizabeth George was speaking about writing and promoting her newest book, This Body of DEATH. Elizabeth said, "I am not planning on reading from my book tonight, I imagine you all...

Changing Tack

June 15, 2010

After a year, the time has come for a slight course correction for ColeWriting.com. When this blog was begun I was just entering a new phase of my writing...

Book Review and Author Interview: ‘After The Workshop’ by John McNally

February 23, 2010

I was a media escort. With those five words, John McNally begins his fictional biography of Jack Hercules Sheahan, a once promising graduate of “The famous Iowa Writers Workshop”. Jack,...

There is no plan B

February 11, 2010

Recently I have been reading Anne Perry's early books and trying to discern the secrets of her popularity and longevity as a writer. Perry published her first Victorian detective...

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