I’ve read many articles about writers who are able to wake up at a very early hour, even before they go to their day job, and work on their writing. This is a lovely sounding idea and I thought I would be able to switch to that schedule. Alas, I was very wrong. In the [...]
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Today I stumbled upon story tips from the great Kurt Vonnegut. Seeing as he wrote some rather amazing stories in his lifetime, I thought his tips would likely provide some good writing advice. These tips of his are geared specifically toward writing short stories, something that I find incredibly difficult. To fit an entire story [...]
Writing is an intensely personal experience and practice. As authors, we put so much of ourselves into our writing, and that can make it difficult for us to part with our writing or edit it in any way. This often happens when writing creative non-fiction essays that may have something to do with our lives. [...]
When I begin a task, I’m the type of person who looks to guidelines or rules so I know if I’m doing the task correctly. Personally, it’s a bit frustrating when there are absolutely no guidelines and I’m simply flying by the seat of my pants. This utter lack of guidelines has been something I’ve [...]
Let’s face it, folks. Writers tend to be a bit…eccentric. And I certainly don’t write this from a place of judgment. Speaking as a person who identifies as a writer, I fully acknowledge that I have a healthy dose of eccentricity as well. Personally, I think that to have the artistic type of brain it takes [...]
I remember that a writer friend of mine once said that she never had celebratory moments at the end of a writing project because she knew another project was to follow. To her, the road of writing was so long and never-ending, that there was never time to stop along the way and have a [...]
What can be said in one hundred words? You might say that not much can be contained in a mere one hundred words. But one hundred words may be the perfect jump-start to get you writing if you’re blocked. If you’re feeling like you don’t know where to begin with a writing project, try writing [...]
Last week, I wrote about the “just keep swimming” approach to writing. Namely, that you should press on with your writing project no matter how much you might doubt yourself or the story you’re writing. If you keep on going, you will eventually hit your stride and, most importantly, you will have a finished manuscript [...]
Yes, that’s right. I’ve taken today’s title from advice given by that paragon of wisdom, Dory from Finding Nemo. Aside from just being great advice for life in general, “just keep swimming” is some great writing advice when you hit a block or begin to worry about the validity of what you’re writing. “Just keep swimming,” though, [...]
Writing is an exercise of the mind. Eventually, (ideally), all those thoughts, descriptions, and lines of dialogue that are swirling around in your head will get put down on paper, scraps of old napkins, or a computer screen. But in its earliest stages, a writing project exists only ephemerally in your head. These ideas may [...]
