So, life threw you a curveball, did it? Pick yourself up, wipe the dust off your keyboard and write anyway. You may be in too much of a funk to add pages to your WIP (work in progress) today, but you need to write something just as important. Ready? Jot or type your negative thoughts onto a piece of paper without concern for grammar, Oxford commas, or periods. Releasing negativity by purging onto paper takes away the hold it has on you and crushes it like the demon it has become. Allow...

I’m going to say the quiet part out loud. Romance drafts don’t stall because you “don’t have time.” They stall because the work gets squishy. The scene feels slippery. The stakes get vague. And suddenly you’re reorganizing your Scrivener folders like that’s going to produce a kiss. I've tried it. It doesn't. I’ve finished romance drafts fast. I’ve also crawled through them like I was dragging a dead Christmas tree up a hill. The difference wasn’t talent. It was habits. Boring ones. Annoying...

Picture this: You are sitting in your favorite easy chair with nothing to do for the third day in a row. You glance at your calendar and find the same thing as last month and the month before—open space. Which, of course, I just fed you a heaping load of crap-o-rama. Please introduce me to a writer who has nothing to do. I’d also like to meet one who knows the definition of boredom. In a life built around deadlines, obligations, and responsibilities, “free time”...