by Fiona Ross | Jan 30, 2024 | Articles
Words will never hurt me Cut it with the bad reviews! How to respond to negative reviews for fiction writers and readers? We’ve all heard the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Well, tell that to authors who...
by Fiona Ross | Mar 14, 2023 | Articles, My Fiction
Not the only 5 things, obviously, but in a decade of writing fiction, in my experience from online chatter, etc., these are the things that we writers seem to obsess about the most. Looking back, I think I went into it somewhat naïvely. Creative writing and essays...
by Fiona Ross | Oct 19, 2020 | Articles
…only abandoned. When IS my screenplay finished? Every time I don’t finish a script, I think of this observation attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. It’s partly the nature of the beast. You keep tweaking, until somebody takes it away from you. Should...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 12, 2020 | Articles
What is the New Normal? I cut my hair with kitchen scissors today. Some of you mutter, “That’s not normal.” Which was deliberate on my part, because now I can ask you, “What is normal?” The old one has gone and none of us has any idea...
by Fiona Ross | May 14, 2019 | News
I can’t believe it. We’re almost halfway through 2019. Feels like I haven’t done much these past few months, but I try to measure writing progress in more than output. Thinking time is also writing time, although a working writer needs it on the...
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