Are You a Sprinter or a Marathoner? Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hands at writing 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November, as part of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The success and popularity of NaNoWriMo is a testament to the power of the writing sprint. You can accomplish […]
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Catching a Flood of Writing Ideas
How do you cope when writing ideas rain down faster than you can catch them? How do handle a creative Muse that delivers batches of writing ideas at inopportune times, like packages that pile up on your doorstep while you’re on vacation? Like summer fruit, inspiration can spoil if left unattended too long. The Creative […]
Finding Purpose Through Writing
Follow your passion. That advice is thrown around like beads at Mardi Gras. But catching the passion – well, that can be much trickier. The advice is not terribly helpful. Worse, it makes people feel like they are somehow empty, meaningless beings if they don’t know what their passion is. If the lack of ‘passion’ […]
