#dedication – Didi Oviatt -Author

Shower-spiration

I think I woke up this morning with an overthinking hangover. Does anyone else ever suffer from that? You know, like when you stay up really really late because you just lay there and can’t turn the thoughts off. It seems like every time I do it, none of my thoughts are actually accomplishing, or…

Ability To Mold Emotions: A Developed Blessing.

The ability to transform emotions is a gift. The greatest of writers recognize this gift. They accept it with grateful humility, and they use it, regularly. With the flick of a wrist and the stroke of a key great writers are able to mold any scene into an emotional event. They can make tragedy beautiful,…

#writers #obsession

If there is one thing I’ve learned over the last year of writing its that creativity and interest alone cannot drive a writer. And, although I’ve been writing for several years now, it wasn’t until the last year that a deep rooted realization of this fact actually sunk in. There are several factors that have…

Transforming Personal Trauma and Devastation into Drive and a Sheer Will to Succeed.

Something that most of my readers don’t know about me is that I struggled very severely to have children. It was during my stubborn quest to make it through multiple miscarriages that I found my love for writing. After my fifth miscarriage we were able to make my sixth pregnancy a success. I gave birth…

The Importance of READING as a writer.

I probably shouldn’t admit to this, but I once (years and years ago) wrote an entire 85k word count novel where I started over 90% of my sentences with SHE!! I know, I know, holy-mother-loving-crap right?!?! haha can every body just say “AMATEUR” one time, really loud, and in unison. Trust me, it took…

#prioritize #familyfirst #amwriting

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How Repetitive Words Strangle The Life From Your Writing… Top 4 novel killing Crutch Words/Phrases:

Every writer is guilty of using those pesky little crutch words, repetitively without even realizing it, at one point or another. We especially use them early on in our careers, and even more so when we fail to READ other authors work before and during our own projects. (which is a whole other issue all in it’s own!. If you are…

Staying Dedicated

Writers may just be the most diverse AND dedicated artists around. Our ‘hobby’ may also be the most time consuming! I’m sure that some may beg to differ, and that’s it totally fine, to each their own. But my argument is this: More than half of the people who attempt to write books give up half way…