When Your Characters Speak to You
This week, I’ve done very little writing. Well, that’s not exactly true, I’ve written sales pages, emails, comments, tweets, posts and the like, but not done a lot of creative writing. This is my first blog post on any of my many blogs in quite a while, and, besides notes, I’ve not move far forward [...]
Putting Off Procrastination
Writers often find the most creative excuses not to write. We will use anything from messy desks to low biorhythms to avoid getting down to business. Creativity is fragile, we think, and we mustn’t jostle it. I am as guilty of this as anyone. And I know that creativity isn’t fragile at all, it’s hale [...]
Interview with Terrie Wurzbacher about Creativity
Last week, I was interviewed by Terrie Wurzbacker of Getting Unstuck, LLC. We had a fairly rollicking time, talking about creativity, the process of writing and writer’s myths. We also digress into some odd and interesting subjects. Powered by Podbean.com You can also listen to it over on Terrie’s blog, From the Desk of Terrie [...]
Post 23 – Writing a Short Story
I love short stories. I have read them all my life. I have had subscriptions to New Yorker, AGNI, Omni, Asimov and other magazines just so I could read the short stories. I have collections from Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post. And, of course, many, many collections of science fiction short stories. I have [...]
Day 5 – The Myth of Writer’s Block
To continue the conversation started yesterday about myths, I would today like to attack a big one for writers, the myth of writer’s block. In our how-to guide, On Writing a Short Story, we touch on writer’s block and give strategies to overcome (or, more accurately, bypass) it. I’d like to go more in depth [...]
On What it Means to be a Writer
Lots of people talk about what it takes to write. And what it takes when you feel “writer’s block.” The definition of a writer is “one who writes”. That’s it. That’s all. That doesn’t take confidence. Or talent, whatever that means. Usually people make it too complicated. We once heard of something that really helps: [...]
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