by John M. DeMarco | Oct 15, 2018 | Writing Tips
9 Tips and Advice for Other Writers Read! Read with breadth and depth – Stephen King calls reading “the creative center of a writer’s life” Write every day, even if it’s just in your personal journal. Daily prose evolves into prolific prose....
by John M. DeMarco | Sep 29, 2018 | Writing Tips
I’ve written and self-published six books since 2011. And while self-publishing is a constant learning journey, here are some tips based on my experiences and observations to date: Don’t invest a lot of time exploring self-publishing until you have a finished product...
by John M. DeMarco | Aug 25, 2018 | Writing Tips
Yesterday morning, I listened to The Paris Review podcast and heard LeVar Burton recreate a 1984 speech by the late writer James Baldwin. I was walking through my neighborhood and had to stop a few times to enter quotes into the Evernote app on my iPhone: “An...
by John M. DeMarco | Jan 30, 2016 | Careers, Business, and Digital Transformation, Meaning, Writing Tips
Are you bought into the ubiquity of the suffering artist, whose creativity is best birthed in anguish? In her latest book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert writes: “If you want to be an artist of any sort, it seemed to me, then handling...
by John M. DeMarco | Jun 18, 2012 | Writing Tips
Writers, what drives you to write? Early this morning I was doing some self-examination, questioning my motives as an indie author and blogger. How much of crafting words on a page and uploading for the world to see is about my own manufactured self-importance? Do I...
by John M. DeMarco | Apr 28, 2012 | Writing Tips
When the levee breaks, the water flows forth with a vengeance. This metaphor feels suitable based on what I noticed during the past two weeks as I completed the first draft of my latest novel, The Wine Steward’s Lover. After writing the first chapter in 2010...
