by Denise Vega | July 16, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Piggybacking on last week’s Recoloring Blue Days, I wanted to talk about how to jumpstart your spark of creativity when you can barely see it or it’s gone out completely. Working through my grief over my mom’s death and the death of my friend,...
by Denise Vega | July 9, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Usually I’m the Queen of Positivity. If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that. I find the silver lining, the thing I’m grateful for, and the sun comes out again. But through most of May the sun was rarely out, literally and figuratively And...
by Denise Vega | July 2, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Marketing vs Writing. The continuing battle. You’ve probably heard the same percentages thrown around that I have: Authors need to devote 50% of their time to marketing. Or more. I believed this for the longest time and pushed myself to do more author visits,...
by Denise Vega | June 25, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
On June 18, my friend and colleague, masterful writer, generous teacher, and sweet soul, Caroline Stutson, transitioned into Spirit. She went on her own terms after she found out she had cancer. My heart is breaking, but I like to think she is chatting it up with my...
by Denise Vega | June 18, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
You know how sometimes the Universe conspires to keep bringing you the same message over and over? Well, that happened to me recently when in the span of 24 hours, I heard the same message about fear, failure and resistance from about six different sources. Guess I...
by Denise Vega | June 11, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
I’ve never thought I was a perfectionist. I mean, I knew I liked to get things right, but I just chalked that up to wanting to do a good job. It wasn’t until I stepped back during the last couple of young adult novels I’d written that I realized I...
