by MontanaCoauthor | Jul 20, 2021 | Writing Process Tips
How my role as a writer-for-hire helps me finish my own creative work As a natural health ghostwriter, copywriter, and coauthor for the past twenty years, I’ve met incredible people I wouldn’t have met any other way. I’ve learned about new scientific and medical...
by MontanaCoauthor | May 11, 2021 | News, Writing Process Tips
Musings on the work that begins AFTER the first readable draft is complete I recently turned in the first full readable draft of a multi-author manuscript. The team was elated. Each author had already spent months of effort working with me to revise their chapters. I...
by MontanaCoauthor | Mar 15, 2021 | News
As a writer in the health and wellness world and as an urban microfarmer, I must call attention to and take action against this injustice. I hope you will too. Following you’ll find a summary of the issue, and an “Open Letter to the Minneapolis City...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jan 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
The garden and trees continue to sleep, though it has been a surprisingly mild winter. At least temps continue to dip low enough at night to keep everyone asleep. “Shh,” I think, whenever days are unseasonably warm. “Don’t wake yet; it can still get very cold in...
by MontanaCoauthor | Nov 21, 2020 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
It hasn’t been the prettiest Autumn. Bitter cold—well below freezing—in early October, many trees hadn’t even lost their leaves yet when everything froze solid in shades of brown and gray. After that abrupt halt to our growing season, the deciduous trees and bushes...
by MontanaCoauthor | Sep 12, 2020 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
I’m on a fractals kick, finding ways to apply them in my dual livelihood, both as a micro-farm manager and as a writer and book editor. If you’re not familiar with the concept of fractals, take a moment to read Life’s Universal Patterns by Eliot Kersgaard. It’s a...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jul 4, 2020 | News, Sketchbook
Why riots? Unfortunately, perhaps because they work. If a group peacefully protests for years, decades, generations, and sees little come of frank and courteous requests, and then upon protest fomenting into riot, we see responsive action, what can anyone make of...
by MontanaCoauthor | Jun 12, 2020 | News
A snapshot of life near the South Minneapolis protests Author Note: I’m taking a break from the usual Writing Tips to share a few profiles and thoughts about the protest movement in my hometown. Below is only one perspective. I am connecting with friends in...
by MontanaCoauthor | May 11, 2020 | Sketchbook, Writing Process Tips
The feeling I get when I thin out seedlings in my garden is so similar to how I feel when I begin removing scenes that aren’t making the cut in a manuscript. “But, but… I like that one. Really like it! Why can’t I leave things as is?” Well. Because crowded scenes...
by MontanaCoauthor | Apr 16, 2020 | News, Writing Process Tips
Well, things just got really strange, didn’t they? I started this year with resolve to finish a draft manuscript of one of my own works in progress. Believe it or not, it’s always a fight to make time for writing, even if you live off writing. Maybe especially...
