by Dakota | Jun 19, 2020 | Blog
If you could spend a year working mainly on self improvement, would you do it? I am currently loving the book, Help Me: One Woman’s Quest to Find Out if Self-Help Really Can Change Your Lifeby Marianne Power. It’s about the experiment one women embarked up to focus on...
by Dakota | Jun 19, 2020 | Blog
Recognizing and Overcoming the Need for Perfection I’d never considered myself a perfectionist. Sure, I preferred the dishwasher be loaded in a certain way. I couldn’t see why anyone wouldn’t squeeze the toothpaste tube from the bottom and of course toilet paper...
by Dakota | May 13, 2020 | Blog
How many times have you told yourself you could finish your novel/screenplay/article by now if only you had more time? I know I used to be a master procrastinator. I was always going to write “someday” — someday when there was more time, when I had the perfect idea,...
by Dakota | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
I am excited to let you know that the third installment of the Liz & Toby Adventures is set to be released on April 7th. It just became available today on Kindle pre-order. Check it out: My Snake Smells Mummies. Similar to My Dog Sees Ghosts and My Cat Hears...
by Dakota | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
What’s the Debate and Who Wins? I’ve been thinking about the classic debate writers and those who advise writers engage in about who we should write for — ourselves or our readers. I started researching both sides so I could understand the arguments. I was about...
by Dakota | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog
Is writing as a profession or a hobby any more challenging than any other profession or hobby? Every profession has it’s downsides. Every hobby has it’s learning curve. Still, many of us — writers and non-writers — hold a belief that there is a certain mystique to...
