Let them find you writing Ok, the truth is this writing thing is all about you! I’m going to say this and just pause for a second after you hear it. You need to be absolutely selfish with your writing. Alright, how’d you feel? Up for the challenge? Irritated and resistant? Whatever you felt, it’sContinue reading “Enough About You”
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Know Thyself.
“Let Them Find You Writing” Day 2 It all started in yesterday’s post which you can read here. It’s a new day with new problems, but let’s stick with Know Thyself and see where it takes us. Writers typically have a pretty good understanding of themselves. Some humans could easily drift through this life withoutContinue reading “Know Thyself.”
Embrace Your Voice: The Path to Writing Success
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” -Octavia E. Butler There’s a million ways to write a story. There’s a million stories to tell, maybeContinue reading “Embrace Your Voice: The Path to Writing Success”
Renew Your Energy: The Writer’s Guide to Rest
Accept the Call “The mind needs to be given rest so that it can return to its work with renewed vigor.”— Seneca I will never understand why our culture rewards overworking. In yesterday’s post, I talked about how you need to give yourself permission to go away and write. In that post, I mentioned howContinue reading “Renew Your Energy: The Writer’s Guide to Rest”
Write for Your Soul
✨Unlocking Creativity ✨ The thing about writing is that there are times when no one is going to validate nor support your craft, and still, you’ve got to show up to the page. You gotta think. You gotta rewrite and reread and type a million different thoughts into one singular sentence at a time. TheContinue reading “Write for Your Soul”
Living
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” -William James First, I love what the James brothers contributed to the world. Henry James as a writer; fantastic and William with his work in psychology, fascinating. The thing about beginning now what you will be is that you must have some idea of what thatContinue reading “Living”
Writing Rules I Live By
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, whatContinue reading “Writing Rules I Live By”
Trust Your Gut
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E. L. Doctorow Writing a novel is like this. Writing a poem is more like feeling your way through your house in the dark before your eyesContinue reading “Trust Your Gut”
Novelist Outlines
Do you outline before you start writing your novel? I didn’t think I did but I just learned today that there’s different types of outlining. Here’s the list Gemini (Google AI) gave me. Choose Your Outline Style When I begin planning my novel the first thing I do is find ways to understand my characters.Continue reading “Novelist Outlines”
Types of Writers
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein There are several different types of writers. When someone says, “I’m a writer.” The first question should be, “Oh that’s awesome, there’s so many ways toContinue reading “Types of Writers”
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