Calissa Leigh Writes

You all knew this was coming. How could I resist?
My YouTube Spot
Videos! I like this. Yes, it has distracted me from writing. Woo hoo!

This was inspired by the thread at Absolute Write.
Writers fear. Writers are afraid. Always. If you write a book, you fear it is no good. When it is sold, you fear no one will buy it. When you get good reviews and the money rolls in, you fear that that’s it, your done and you [...]

I don’t understand why everyone is in such a big hurry these days. It seems like a number of my editors or business owners are wanting things done ASAP.
Given that I usually don’t take long to get work completed anyway, I’m always surprised when people want me to do it faster. It’s even better when [...]

I’ve got an article I’m working on and wanting to submit to a magazine. The magazine has a limit of 500 words.
So what was my count? 690.
After a half hour of editing, I’ve taken out and added what I thought was additional information that would make things clearer.
What is it at now? 630.
Argh! *Cries*
I need [...]

Five queries went out this morning. Whew. So I spent the early part of the afternoon playing Runescape. Yeah. Big geek here.
 I am not always this productive. I’m usually a one a week sort of query sender. I don’t know what the average is. Then there are weeks I’m so focused on fiction I don’t [...]

As I’ve mentioned, I spend a lot of time looking for new ways to organized. By the end of my search, I always end up with the same therory: organization takes a lot of time.
I personally like the simple life system. If you have enough stuff to do that you need to make a mile [...]

Okay, edited part of the side bar. I know. Whoope. Oh well. Eventually I’ll fix it up nice or something. Maybe.
I was going to write today. I have a chunk of work to do, and I don’t feel like doing any of it. I’ve been messing on MySpace. Making films for YouTube, etc. Fun [...]

Every once in a while, I waste hours of time looking for articles, ebooks and information on how to organize myself better so that I can be more productive. Okay, it isn’t a total waste. Sometimes I pick up on really good tips that helps me, even if momentarily, feel better about doing something ‘normal’ [...]

Okay, you know that moment you wake up from a dream… and you go “oh wow, I had the best idea for a novel ever!” and you wish you had the energy to scribble down a few notes? You try to remember but by morning whatever it was had vanished. And you agonize for days [...]

Yeah, I finally figured out what ‘The Secret’ was.
And you know what I thought of after? “Duh!” I already knew that. It’s all about positive thinking. What? Did the world suddenly go crazy? This has been done before and it is so obvious.
Obviously, if you focus on problems, you’ll only have problems. You have to [...]