by Denise Vega | November 5, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
With most of my novels, I call it revising, but it’s really rewriting. Revision vs. Rewrite. What’s the difference and why do I care? Revision For me, revising is when I’m reworking scenes and maybe even adding and deleting some scenes, but the...
by Denise Vega | October 29, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Last November I decided to participate in PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month), a fun project started by author Tara Lazar. I’m going to do it again this year, but I thought I’d share what I did with my calendar of ideas. One Completed Manuscript One of the...
by Denise Vega | October 22, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Last week I wrote about having to let go of things I loved doing so I could create time and space for more writing. And in the past I’ve written about “have to” versus “get to”. But this is an ongoing challenge for me, so I want to come...
by Denise Vega | October 15, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Over the last few weeks I was starting to feel a little less than my sunny, optimistic self when it came to my writing career. But how could this be? I absolutely LOVED everything I was doing —teaching writing, developing online writing classes, providing...
by Denise Vega | October 8, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. – Jim Carrey So what is up with not asking for what we really...
