If you were about to run a marathon, would you get up on the day of the big event and start running without preparation?  If you did, you'd probably pass out after a few miles of jogging. In order to win, athletes condition and practice. Musicians must rehearse to create melody instead of noise.

Writers are no different.                                       

In fact, writers never stop learning.  As an author, if you ever feel you have come to a point of all-knowing creative expression, you...

MY BOOK IS DRIVING ME CRAZY …

and I think I might be starting to hate it!!

You were editing and/or proofing your WIP and suddenly flipped out? It’s okay. Calm down, and take a deep breath.

Did you used to love your book? Did you used to read it and think, “Dang! I wrote this? This is amazing stuff!”? Then I can help. You are experiencing what all writers eventually suffer: Work-in-Progress Burnout, or WIPB.

WIPB hit me with my first (written) novel, The Judging. I spent twe...