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Inside the Cover Book Review
Review by Betty Winslow
Time
to Write
Kelly L. Stone
Adams Media
2008
245 pp.
Writing-related
Having a hard time carving out
time to write?
Yeah, me too. Life is often so full of responsibilities, distractions, crises,
and interruptions that getting anything extra done seems impossible. Novelist
and freelance writer Kelly L. Stone completely understands; she established her
own freelance writing career while holding down a full-time
job and raising a family.
Do I hear you asking, in a wistful voice, "But how?" Have hope, fellow writers!
Reading Stone's Time
to Write (with its bold cover promise of
"No excuses, no distractions, [and] no more blank pages") will answer that
question a dozen times over. No matter where you are in your writing career or
what sort of writing you do, you should be able to
find
something helpful in Stone's bag of tips, tricks, advice, and encouragement from
more than 100 professional writers. (And if you don't, read it again. You
probably missed something the first time through!)
Trying to figure out how to
balance writing and family life? Wondering if a schedule might help your
production level? Dealing with distraction, rejection, or your inner critic?
Looking for some useful tools to make your writing
life smoother? All that and more is covered, in the voices of writers like Jodi
Picoult, Debbie Macomber, Sandra Brown, Cecil Murphey, Steve Berry, and Rick
Mofina.
However, if you're curious about how exactly Stone herself does it, you'll
probably be a bit disappointed. Aside from a few (very) brief personal comments
and anecdotes sprinkled here and there, she keeps her own writing life pretty
much in the dark, which means you may end up (as I did a few times) wondering
out loud, "So, how did you do this, Kelly?"
Still, this is a minor quibble. It in no way detracts from the book's value
to anyone who's ever wondered how on earth
to cram writing into an already jammed life. Are you
already shaking your head and muttering, "There's no way!" There is. Truly.
Reading Time to
Write can help you figure out ways
to fit writing into your own busy life. No more
excuses!
Postscript: Time to
Write also introduced me to
a number of writers I was not be familiar with, and some intriguing titles.
Looks like I'll be using Stone's tips to make
time to read, too!
Click here to buy the book!
Betty Winslow,
a former AW staff writer and board moderator, has been freelancing for almost 30
years and her writing has appeared in many magazines and eight books (and on
several other websites). She wrote the chapter on buffet entertaining in The
Godly Business Woman's Guide to
Cooking and Entertainment, and a series of poems she wrote about her eldest
daughter, who passed away in 1993, was included in Chicken Soup for the Soul
Celebrates Mothers and Daughters.
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