Category: Creative Process/Craft
For Beginning Writers – My Writing is Awful!
Of course it is. So is mine. This might be a great time to purchase a copy of Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird and read…
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Solely for the Writer’s Use
Earlier this week I was working on the second draft of a chapter of a manuscript. As I wrote I inserted bits right into the…
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Writing in the Storm
Writing is very difficult for me right now. More difficult than normal. It’s hard to focus, to give writing the priority, the time, the energy.…
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To What Might We Compare the Writing of a First Draft?
Verily, Verily, I say unto you, the writing of a first draft is like hacking a path through a previously undiscovered forest. One observes and…
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Mood Work
In 1998, not long after my father died, I read 1984 by George Orwell. A great novel, far from great timing. When we read a…
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