by Linda Sivertsen | Apr 15, 2014 | Favorites, The Boyfriend Log
Hello my beautiful writer friends… I’m writing to you from a beautiful rainy spring day in upstate New York. When you live in L.A. and the sun bakes down on you pretty much all day every day, rain is especially BEAUTIFUL. I’ve been on the East Coast for a...
by Linda Sivertsen | Mar 10, 2014 | Favorites, Writing, Marketing & Publishing Tips
“Part of the problem is that you’re weird and you know it. Whatever made you talented as a kid also served to make you a bit odd.” ~Sam Bennett Sound familiar? Feel more than a little accurate? I spent bits of the weekend trying to explain to my...
by Linda Sivertsen | Sep 5, 2013 | Favorites, Writing, Marketing & Publishing Tips
This graphic just made me laugh out loud. Think of it—Shakespeare actually saying something so damn funny. But you know what? After being on a long writing jag of my own, I have no doubt he uttered this statement. Exactly. I can see William—Bill—now, rockin’ back in...
by Linda Sivertsen | May 11, 2013 | Favorites, Inspiration & Motivation
Back in 1996, when my mother was 59, her doctors diagnosed her with cancer. In the next breath they told her there was nothing they could do and that she very likely only had weeks to live. I became obsessed with wanting her to know what kind of mother she’d been....
by Linda Sivertsen | May 9, 2013 | Favorites, Inspiration & Motivation
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” ~Charles Dickens Being the hero of your own life. Ever wonder about that? What does that really mean for us “regular” people walking...
by Linda Sivertsen | Apr 4, 2013 | Book Mama Recommends, Favorites
The best writers are also readers. Thus, what a double DELIGHT it is when you find a writing book that’s so good you can’t put it down. My new fave is WIRED FOR STORY by Lisa Cron. In it, she uses the latest brain science to reveal how to...