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.
Prolific writers have said you are either a good housekeeper or you are a great writer but not both. The reality, however, is that we have responsibilities in life and we schedule our writing periods like everything else. As long as we are writing, we are successful.
Fear keeps writers from sharing their work with the world. Why does fear have a strong hold on writers? What can we do to fight fear?
Stress and life in general mean we have to find our happy place for mental, emotional, and physical therapy. Ballet teaches me adaptability and compromise. As writers, we must adopt changes thrust upon us. But despite our challenges, we keep going because writers are who we are.
Weeding our gardens is an ongoing chore, much like editing our work. We want our writing to be beautiful too, which forces us to kill our darlings in our stories.
Figuring out what to read, what conferences and workshops to attend, or what path to take to improve our writing can be daunting and expensive. What should we consider with social media, education, and finding our author’s voice?
