by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 21, 2020 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
After a four-month corona-quarantine hiatus, this is the eighth installment in my randomly periodic “Your Write Turn” series of blog posts. I’ve discussed choosing writing as a second career, assessing what personal skills and resources you bring to your writing,... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jan 12, 2020 | Blog, Posts About My Novels, Your Write Turn |
This is the seventh installment in my periodic “Your Write Turn” series of blog posts. I’ve talked about choosing writing as a second career, assessing what personal skills and resources you bring to your writing, hauling yourself over the hump of self-doubt, writerly... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
Let’s face it. After a certain age, we aren’t good sprint runners anymore. It’s OK. You can admit it. Hips and knees have limited tread life. Same thing for all those parts we use for writing. I’ve blogged about various parts of the writing... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Sep 1, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
One of the hardest skills for any writer to learn—especially older first-time writers—is how to call “knock it off.” Back in my Air Force days, that’s what you’d say over the radio when you’d had enough dog-fight training. Or you were running out of gas. Either way,... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
Yep, the book publishing world has been turned upside down. There are few markets that were earlier or more thoroughly disrupted than publishing. Well, maybe music. The gatekeepers of yesteryear just aren’t keeping the gates anymore. The Big Five publishers used to...