Archive for June, 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...

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 create about 25 percent more original material, and the fact...

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 can do that yourselves..." Rather, she spoke about her process...

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 life and was focused on freelance magazine writing. While this was a wonderful step to take - writing full-time for online and print magazines...