The Roses of Prose

Those of us in the book writing business are constantly looking for success, searching for ways to sell more books and earn a little recogni...

We’re talking horrible bosses on the Roses this month, and we’ve probably all had them. They can make our working lives a living hell ...

By Glenys O'Connell @GlenysOConnell Before we can be successful, we have to know what it means to us as an individual. In writing,...

Failure is not an option. This is a sentence I’ve told myself many times. My earlier blog here on April 4 th talked about the fact that s...

Success and failure. It's human nature to strive for one and avoid the other. Except, we can't. Like everyone else, I've h...

I'm not one to worry too much about failure. That moment, that hour, even that day, I might scream or cry or feel dismally imperfect. ...

Someone recently asked the question on Facebook about what the definition of success was. I replied that success was when other people ask...

Is one man's success another man (or woman's) failure? Of course. We all have different expectations, and more often than not, t...

By Glenys O'Connell As writers, we’re dreamers – and I don’t just mean about characters and plot lines.   No, we also fantasise about ...

By Glenys O'Connell I've thought a lot about success over the years, and the conclusion I have come to is that success is somethin...

I’m told February is Expect Success Month. I suppose it beats expecting failure, right? Lately, I’ve been hearing a great deal about the po...