I probably have close to 1000 file folder. All colours. They're in various places, including a 4-level horizontal filing cabinet, a smaller narrow filing cabinet, drawers in two desks, several Omni carts, several other movable carts with file folder spaces on the top and plastic drawers underneath, and a few file boxes. The files are [ Read more...]
The moment you have several ideas down on pieces of paper, you need some files. Not a lot of them. You might start with only five or six. You can easily buy a small metal holder with half a dozen or so coloured folders in it. Mark the blue folder Nonfiction Ideas, the red one [ Read more...]
The absolute most important item for any writer to have organized is his or her ideas. Everything else can get messy or be allowed to sink into oblivion if necessary, but ideas are the straw writers must have in order to spin their gold. So how do you keep those ideas safe? First, I never [ Read more...]
What if your work space is currently in chaos? Take some quality time to just sit and think about what works best for you. I remember when our kids were small. We wanted them to set the table and empty the dishwasher when it was clean. But they weren't tall enough to reach the cupboard [ Read more...]
Over the years, I can't begin to estimate how much time I've wasted looking for things I've misplaced – slips of papers with ideas on them, contracts, books, emails… You name it, I've misplaced it. And I've spent hours and hours and hours searching for something, only to have it turn up shortly after I [ Read more...]
I asked M. D. (Dorene) Meyer to write a guest blog on an area of writing that is very close to her heart, but not exactly in the mainstream of writing. As we look at changing the way publishing industry works, and in particular Canadian Christian publishing, we need to think of the many groups [ Read more...]
This is a guest blog by Violet Nesdoly, a freelance writer from BC whose special interests are writing non-fiction, fiction, activities, and poetry for Children, and writing articles, devotionals, and poetry for adults. I have to say i totally relate to Violet's feelings and believe many other writers will too. It's also why I feel [ Read more...]
Writers—especially those who aspire to write books—are currently being told on all sides that the publishing industry is undergoing a massive change. That they need to take control of their destinies. That publishers today expect them to sell up to 65% of the print run of their books. That it's only going to get worse. [ Read more...]
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