by Linden Gross | Dec 23, 2021 | Uncategorized, Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn in my life has been to ask for help. Growing up as feminism was taking hold, I took pride in being independent and self-sufficient. If I could figure out a way to do something, no matter how daunting the task or how much...
by Linden Gross | Nov 25, 2021 | Writing Life
It’s been a crazy year. Difficult, sure. But also rewarding. Writing coach clients have finished books, published books, begun writing new books. I did all of the above. Ten years after starting it, Busting the Brass Ceiling: How a Heroic Female Cop Changed the...
by Linden Gross | Nov 18, 2021 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing, Writing Life
I’ve written professionally for 40 years now. Although I’m sure my math can’t be correct since I can’t possibly be that old, I have learned a thing or two about the writer mindset during all that time. Some of those lessons have come, as...
by Linden Gross | Sep 2, 2021 | Writing Life
I should have known. After all, it was a drought year. Instead, I plunged in full of anticipation, still reveling in the prior year’s unprecedented success. Yes, this year, once again, my newfound prowess as the tomato whisperer would be on display in the garden and...
by Linden Gross | Aug 5, 2021 | Writing, Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
I recently read a terrific article about the problems writers face and what to do about them. Writer, life coach and therapist Dana Shavin–or the editors at The Writer Magazine–called the piece “15 of the Most Common Causes of Writer’s Block – and...
by Linden Gross | Jul 29, 2021 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing, Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
“Is that a Newfie puppy?” asked a woman whom my dogs and I passed on a path that runs along Bend’s Deschutes River. I knew she was asking about my zealous girl Sophie. I looked at the woman’s full-grown, chestnut-colored Newfoundland and laughed. Whether...
