Ask the Author: Nancy Rossman
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Nancy Rossman
Discipline. They say 21 days to form a new habit and I have found that to be true. After that, you'll sit down (should always be the same time of day) and you just write. Even if you hate it. Even if you erase it later. This is just priming your pump, so to speak
Nancy Rossman
introspection and reflection. Plus just making sense of this crazy world.
Nancy Rossman
Attend writers' workshops where you stay and do all kinds of writing type things. They tend to be a week long and you'll get the energy and direction you need. Five is usually enough
Read as many respected "how to write" books as you can stand without throwing up.
DO NOT participate in a writers' group where you critique each other's work in progress. Bad idea and easy to lose your voice.
Read as many respected "how to write" books as you can stand without throwing up.
DO NOT participate in a writers' group where you critique each other's work in progress. Bad idea and easy to lose your voice.
Nancy Rossman
A humorous novel that is based on true events ... there are such things as Senior Beauty contests. Though the characters are fictional, the two pageants are real. It will be complete humor much like the tone of "Best in Show."
Nancy Rossman
I have a very disciplined approach because that works for me. Every morning after I exercise and do the crossword I sit down and begin. My promise is that I only need to write a paragraph. Ha. It is always more than that. Once I get going I try to do a page (i.e. 250 words).
The afternoons are for reading. Weekends are free to be with my husband so I am only writing five days a week.
The afternoons are for reading. Weekends are free to be with my husband so I am only writing five days a week.
Nancy Rossman
This was a complex and deep friendship that I had with Lynda. She asked me years ago to please tell her story. It took decades to be brave enough to do so.
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