Guest Post: Travel is the Best Investment for Writers

April 26, 2018By Christina Delay
Guest Post: Travel is the Best Investment for Writers

The world is a book, and those who don’t travel read only a page. – St Augustine

I believe that travel is the single best investment you can make as writer. 

I remember the first time I travelled by myself – I was sixteen and already too tall to be comfortable in the cramped window seat. My mom was sending me to Nepal to spend some time with older sister. Forced bonding time because we hated each other. 

The plane taxied down the runway, building speed for take off. The sound of the engines built inside the cabin and the vibrations rumbled through my bones. Fear and excitement twisted tighter and tighter in my belly.

The Crumbling of Writing Dreams

March 15, 2018By Christina Delay
The Crumbling of Writing Dreams

There used to be an old blue house next door to my parent’s lakehouse, abandoned before my parents moved in. It was an interesting cobbled-together house with three roof lines and a long balcony that stretched out over the boat dock above the water. After some investigating, we discovered that the house belonged to a … Read More

Guest Post: Writing and Traveling

January 31, 2018By Christina Delay
Guest Post: Writing and Traveling

I’ve always told my boys it’s a big wide world out there and to take every opportunity you can to travel. The experience broadens you. Helps you see things from a different perspective. Allows you an insight into how other people live, cultures, and amazing differences we all have. It rounds you out and helps give understanding to the world around you.

So, how do you bring this all these travel experiences into your writing?

Discovering Your Writing Tribe Through Writing Workshops

January 17, 2018By Christina Delay
Discovering Your Writing Tribe Through Writing Workshops

Through all the writing conferences and writing workshops I’ve attended over the years, I’ve never been to a single talk that teaches about handling rejection. Rejection’s a hard topic, especially when most of us would rather think about the potential success. Unfortunately, as authors, we’ve chosen to be involved in an industry that requires rejection…and for most of us, a boat-load of it!

Luckily, we have some great tools to deal with rejection.

Fighting the Borg with Writing Workshops

January 10, 2018By Christina Delay
Fighting the Borg with Writing Workshops

Have you ever watched Star Trek: The Next Generation? Every few years my husband and I re-watch the entire series. The plots are cheesy, the writing is not the greatest, and I’m constantly having to tell my husband that I don’t care what the red lights are called on the outside of the Enterprise. I … Read More

Once upon a time, there was a princess…

January 4, 2018By Christina Delay
Once upon a time, there was a princess…

For Christmas, I found this really cool gift for my daughter. It’s called IlluStory by LuLu Junior, and it’s a kit for kids to make their own books, then send them off to be published. Pretty cool, right? (And don’t we wish it was that easy for adult writers?!) The kit comes with a How … Read More