How to Engineer Your Own Lightbulb Moment

Issue #26 of Your Path to Publication, plus everything I published last week.

Writers are artists, dreamers, and idealists, but they often lack one character trait:

Pragmatism.

Pragmatism in the creative arts sometimes feels like a dirty word. “Reject reality, embrace imagination and inspiration,” or something like that. It’s unsexy and not at all exciting, but I’m of the mind that the boring repetition–the tasks you can complete e…