Author Archives: Shea Robinson

Publishing my novel has been 12 years in the making. Yes, you read that right! I’m as incredulous as you are. And what a labor of love this has been. Mostly, when people would say, “You wrote a book? That’s amazing!” I would shake my head and deny it. Writing is how I keep sane.Continue reading “A Writing Journey to Publish Dance With Me”

When you’re a writer and you tell someone you’re writing a book, there are two inevitable questions: “What is it about?” and “Are you going to publish?” To be honest, I used to hate these questions. The first one you know I dreaded per the previous post, “A Writing Tip for Talking about your Book.”Continue reading “A Writing Tip for Choosing How to Publish”

If you’re like me, then you dread the question, “What’s your book about?” It’s not that I don’t know what my book is about. That would be silly. I’ve just spent years writing this story. These characters are my friends. How could I not know? The problem is that I know my book too well.Continue reading “A Writing Tip for Talking about your Book”

This is advice I didn’t make up, but it’s something I’ve followed numerous times. It’s advice you’re not going to like because it’s probably one of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do with your writing. No, it’s not killing your darlings (although that gets significantly easier with this step). Here’s the case forContinue reading “A Writing Tip for Starting Over”

Writer’s Block…ah, that dreaded word. The arch nemesis of every writer, whether your specialty is prose, poetry, song writing, or some other medium. If Writer’s Block were a person, it would be one we cross the street to avoid. It’s the antagonist to our muse. The darkness we pretend doesn’t exist. For most of us,Continue reading “A Writing Tip for Writer’s Block”