Happy New Year! 2020. Whew. Glad that’s over. Here’s hoping ’21 does us better. Every year, I like to pick a word to try and focus my energies. Otherwise, I’m very much like the dogs on Up—SQUIRREL! Though, if I’m completely honest, I can’t even remember what my word for 2020 was. It should’ve been…
In my last Reboot post I mentioned how I’d had no plan and no goals for my writing career other than to be a New York Times Bestseller. Well, this year I’m changing that. I read somewhere— in some self-help book or another— that people who write down their goals are much more likely to…
Man, this gig is hard. All those years I spent dreaming of writing full-time, I had no idea just how hard it is. When I sold my first book, I plunged in head-first without a plan and without any particular goals. I just wrote and sold some books and made money. I got lucky. My…