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What’s Important During These Strange Times?

May 4, 2020April 29, 2020 Kelly Babcock Leave a comment

clocks — You got some time on your hands?

So, you’re stuck at home, work’s on hold, and you’re struggling to stay on task … or even remember what day it is.

I get it. I truly do.

I’ve been working from home for a few years now. And I understand very well how difficult it is to concentrate on something you don’t normally do at home when there’s all those home things to do.

I mean, how long have you been promising yourself that you’d reorganize that room, clean out those closets, alphabetize your spice rack?

Yes. I know, you thought I was going to say “Write, Dammit!” Read more

The End Is Nigh

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 Kelly Babcock Leave a comment

That’s right. I said it. It will all soon be over. The end is coming faster than you think. And there will be no way to stop it, and no way to save yourself from its coming.

The end of 2019 is just a day and a half away.

And when it gets here, you are required by tradition, and by your anxious nature, to take stock of your declared resolutions and admit failure and defeat.

It’s okay, it happened to all of us

The thing is that you didn’t fail so much as you miscalculated.

You swore you’d have written that book. You resolved to have submitted a short story every month. You decreed that you would create a schedule and then stick to it.

There’s your trouble

No, not that you made resolutions. Your trouble is that you worded them wrong.

Listen, you’re a writer. How many times have you rewritten some sentence or paragraph or even just a phrase or a word? Read more

Resource This

October 28, 2019October 29, 2019 Kelly Babcock Leave a comment

As a writer, I spend a lot of time … not writing. If you don’t believe me, just ask our blog wrangler, the inimitable Lori Twining, she’s always trying to get me to write my blog post. The funny thing is that blog writing is half of what I do for a living. Ha ha …

… oh, Lori doesn’t think that’s as funny as I do …

But I have a life. I have a lot of things going on in that life. The website I work for locally was recently hacked and it’s one of my jobs to see that that doesn’t happen again.

How am I supposed to write while the bad people are trying to use our site to get sensitive info from our readers.

My boss asked me recently, “Why don’t you write for our site any more?”

The Two Best Times Of The Year To Write

August 26, 2019October 21, 2019 Kelly Babcock Leave a comment

During any given year, there are two times that come up that are the absolute best times to write if you are a writer.

In fact, even if you’re not a writer but simply aspire to being one, you can take advantage of these two great times when, during the circling calendar the stars align, but more importantly the time is the most opportune for writing.

And lucky you, I, a professional writer, am going to share the secret of these two times with you.

I am honoured to do so …

Oh, Canada … You’re So great

July 1, 2019August 5, 2019 Kelly Babcock Leave a comment

You may have heard me snigger a little derisively when someone says, “Write what you know.” That’s because I’ve always been a big fan of the “Learn what you want to write about.” school of thought.