Steve Almond says in his tiny and perfect book This Won’t Take But A Minute, Honey (I SO highly recommend this book, buy it here): “Writing is decision making, nothing more, nothing less.” Rather than agonize over every decision to the point of freezing up your writing or being so cavalier about […]
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Drafting. It’s the epitome of writing, the thing we all imagine when we picture writers working away at the typewriter. At its best, all of the writer’s knowledge comes together into an experience resembling a flow sport. At its worst, the words plop out one at a time, agonizingly slow, with […]
Thanks so much for the support of everyone who has kept me going all month long! I could not have done this without knowing how excited everyone is to eventually read this book! What’s next? Honestly, a wee break. I had a lot of fun this month but I am […]
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So the naive person I was before November 1st thought, “how perfect, the next topic of 101 TIWIK is drafting, and I’m about to being doing a lot of drafting. I’ll have so much to blog about.” To quote Mike Birbiglia, “I kno-ow. I’m in the future, also.” So today, instead […]
One of my few rules about writing is that it should be fun. There are a lot of far more lucrative ways to torture yourself. If you’re not having fun, there’s a good chance your readers won’t be, either. But as with anything, there are ups and downs. Somedays the […]