The natural environment contributes to better mental and emotional health. It also nurtures our creativity, our productivity, and ultimately, our writing. How?
Category: Writing Craft
Should you create an outline for your book?
There are a few advantages to creating an outline before penning a draft. What are they? And what are some areas to focus on in your outline?
Why editing your own work is part of the writing process
The art of writing comes, not from the writing itself, but from the editing process. How can we make the task of editing easier?
Save your writing — and your ideas — with a notebook
Creative concepts do not always appear at convenient times. Before we lose our reflections, we should write them down. And the best way to do this is with a notebook. Writing longhand has an added benefit: it slows our thoughts down and we capture more detail.
Benefits of writing your draft from the middle
Trying to create an inspiring opening to our article or story is one of the hardest, though most important, tasks we have to fulfill. What will help us focus and write introductions with amazing sentence structure and appealing copy? Start writing from the middle.
Read to feed your creative mind
Suffer from blank page syndrome? Reading helps us refocus, provides writing prompts from where we least expect them, and energizes us to plow ahead with our writing.