Life

Do or do not. There is no try…. Every writer needs a Yoda. What would yours say?

For Sandra Block, one sign on a locker room wall convinced her to start from scratch again.

For Tracee de Hahn, vacation is time away from the routine, setting her mind free to see connections that didn’t exist before.

What’s your definition of success as an author? It may be upside down if you haven’t defined success in your own words and in things under your control. Define success on your own terms and there’s no way you can lose.

Edith Maxwell pondered this: “If you can do something risky that you think will improve your life, you ask, ‘What’s the worst that can happen?’” Then she stepped off the edge into a new adventure.

On St. Patrick’s Day, all writers are a wee bit Irish.

For a career author, ignoring the giants of the literary pantheon is done at your peril. Nevertheless, for giggles, what follows is an extremely *not* scientific quiz to identify your writing guru.

For devoted readers, books can sometimes become associated with the place where they were read. Here are a few literary place memories shared by those of us at CareerAuthors.