inspiration, creative writing prompts, motivational quotes, poetry and gentle nagging on the creative writing life…
A creative block is the wall we erect to ward off the anxiety we suppose we’ll experience if we sit down to work. Eric Maisel I wanted to address a comment Jim made yesterday about my sculpting post…In reference to Continue reading What Works For Me…May Not Work For You
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even Continue reading Sculpting Your Work
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. Beryl Continue reading 7 De-cluttering tips for writers
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Continue reading The Never-Ending Short
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, Continue reading Scratch Any Way You Can
My phone interview is in 10 minutes, I’m so nervous I can’t blog.
“1. A thousand words a day–or two hours of revision–five days a week for the rest of your life”. Carolyn See It’s time to come clean, I love writing craft books I have a lot of them…so many that at Continue reading Pretending You’re A Writer
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce I stayed up just long enough Continue reading 7 Reasons 2008 Will Be Different