A writing space is as important as writing time.
When you have a special place where you write (I have a very deep, very dark, very scary cave, for example), you tend to write there just because you're used to doing it there.
Read MoreA writing space is as important as writing time.
When you have a special place where you write (I have a very deep, very dark, very scary cave, for example), you tend to write there just because you're used to doing it there.
Read MoreYou know those days. Nothing you do seems to move your story forward. It just all seems wrong, and you're in a foul mood.
You don't know how to fix your story, and you're getting more and more depressed about.
What to do? Sleep on it. Tomorrow will be better.
Read MoreI'm a foreigner, and I had to learn English grammar together with the English language. I still stumble, mostly on articles. And I still study it, to get better.
Grammar is part of your writer's toolbox.
Read MoreIf your goal is to do some writing every day, invariably, just like with exercise, one day you'll wake up fatigued. Only when the muscles are sore after long days of exercise and by simply being sore stop you from moving, quite often your brain isn't capable of stopping you (my case), and as part of your writing routine you need to learn to recognize this fatigue. To learn to stop. To learn to give your brain a rest.
And it really does need rest, to recharge.
Read MoreThere are those pockets of downtime you don't know how to fill.
A minute here. Two minutes there. It's very convenient to pull out your phone and kill those minutes by scrolling through some posts or pictures.
What if for that one minute or two you allowed your mind to wander?
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