My Kitchen Table | Vicki Hinze

The Legacy Blessing

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 26, 2010 | My Kitchen Table

WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… The reason that most writers become writers is that they have something to say that they want others to hear. The format they choose is storytelling. But that need not be limited to the novel. My point: Too often the ones who...

VISION TO PAGE: A Tip from the Trench

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 26, 2010 | My Kitchen Table

WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… We dream, we write. We’re excited or enthused and we attempt to translate the vision in our head onto the page. We get it down. We’ve manifested the vision. Then we go back and read what we’ve written. In our minds, we see...

Self-SABOTAGE: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 26, 2010 | My Kitchen Table

WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… Self-fulfilled prophesy: the art of willfully structuring events to manifest a projected outcome… It isn’t enough that we have to battle the rest of the world, we have to battle ourselves. And often we are not only our...

DECIDE? IMPOSSIBLE!

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 26, 2010 | My Kitchen Table

WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… I did an interview this morning and got asked a difficult question. One tries to prepare for these things, and one does prepare, but this wasn’t an ordinary question. Oh, I’ve been asked about this sort of thing, had this type...

DEADLINES: WHY IT’S ARROGANT TO MISS THEM

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 26, 2010 | My Kitchen Table

WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… A few days ago, a writer bragged to me that she was always late on delivering her manuscripts. She blew that off, as if it were no big deal. That left me shaking my head. Not just at the lack of professionalism and personal...

EXPECTATIONS

by Vicki Hinze | Dec 26, 2010 | My Kitchen Table

WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… A short time ago, I wrote a post on expectations. In the past few days, it seems it’s a theme for authors and others to NOT expect good things in their lives, so I’m mentioning it again–and expectations is what is on the...