Monthly Archives: February 2010
Should You Write Every Day?
Photo by jking89 Should you write when you don’t want to? Everyone’s heard the advice to write every day. I’ve even repeated it to writers myself, but I’m wondering if it’s really good advice after all. Most writers start out … Continue reading
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Grabbing Creative Writing Ideas Before They Vanish
Sometimes you just can’t see the wood for the trees. Story beginnings seem to be the most treeful area of writing. Creative writing ideas are there, but elusive. You grab hold of one and write, and within a minute or … Continue reading
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Tagged clustering, Fiction Writing, ideas, mindmapping, Nonfiction, writing process
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First Drafts – Patchwork Writing
I’ve just read a post on Holly Lisle’s Talysmana site regarding first drafts and the writing process, which has sparked off a few thoughts of my own. One of the hardest things in writing, or learning to write, is learning … Continue reading
Homing in on the Senses
Effective writing demands the use of all five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting – but it also demands something else: the ability to see beyond the usual, to find the extraordinary in the commonplace, to get beneath the surface … Continue reading
Getting Over the Writing Blues
Following on from the ‘secretive’ post, I did a little hard thinking and decided I needed to get myself out of that kind mindset. I suppose we all have crises of confidence at some point. Maybe it’s the time of … Continue reading