by Susan Lovett | Sep 26, 2017 | A Writer's Life, Blog, Writing |
Better yet, stop banning books altogether. The truth is the act of banning books is on the rise. According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), the organization that compiles data on challenged and banned books and generates the Top Ten Challenged Books List, there was a 17% increase in book censorship complaints last year. In a typical year, 10% of books are banned and pulled from the shelves and it’s time for it to stop.
by Susan Lovett | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Motivation, Writing |
I know a lot of writers who excel when pressured by the clock. There’s something about crunching a deadline that spurs the creative juices.
by Susan Lovett | Sep 12, 2017 | A Writer's Life, Blog, Motivation, Writing |
The best writing transports us to another world, another life, another experience. The only way to reach this level of writing is to change the way you interact with the existing world.
So often we go through life focused on facts, our phones and our to-do lists and not the moments as they pass. We’re too busy looking ahead or behind to see what is. The sad fact is few of us are truly engaged in our lives. It’s one reason we are so often surprised by how quickly time has passed. Where did the summer go? It’s Christmas already?
by Susan Lovett | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Scripts, Writing |
Writing scripts is not like writing for the page. It takes a different set of skills. Here are my top tips if you want to write scripts for a living: