by Linden Gross | Mar 5, 2010 | Writing, Writing Life
Writing is most often a solitary business. All too often we writers have to motivate ourselves, isolate ourselves until our pages are done, pat ourselves on the back when things work out and console ourselves when they don’t. But it doesn’t have to be, even if you’re...
by Linden Gross | Feb 13, 2010 | Writing Life
I’ve started writing restaurant reviews for a local magazine. I don’t do it for the money, that’s for sure. But I love food. As I wrote in one of my initial reviews, “when you’re raised in Rio de Janeiro and Paris by parents who appreciate fine dining, you’re in for a...
by Linden Gross | Feb 5, 2010 | Writing, Writing Life
Writers as a group have refined the art of self-flagellation … and not only evaluating their own prose or verse when writing a book. “I didn’t do any writing,” my writing coach clients will say to me. Granted sometimes that means they didn’t even think about their...
by Linden Gross | Jan 22, 2010 | Writing Life
If writing tops your list of resolutions or regrets, you could be missing out on more than you know. I was barely a teenager when I figured out that writing could help me sort out my emotions, which were on a rampage that would last longer than I would have liked....