Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Why It’s Never Too Late to...
For many years, Polish poet and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature Wisława Szymborska dispensed anonymous writing advice in a regular column...
How to Train Your Brain for Writing When You’re Not Writing
While many creative people have set hours for their project time, the creative process itself is no respecter of schedules. At worst, our minds...
Keep Writing Even as the World is Ending
A recurring theme on this year's writing blogs has been how bad the last two years have sucked. You'd be forgiven for thinking the...
Write What You Know: the Opposite of Imagination
You wouldn't be surprised to learn that acclaimed writer Kazuo Ishiguro - author of The Remains of the Day and the modern SF classic...
Some Days, You Don’t Need a Goal
Word counts, daily hours, publication, awards. Writers fret about a lot of things, most of them out of our control, many of which rob...
“The Writer You Are is Enough.”
In an interview with Lit Hub, Ruth Ozeki (A Book of Form and Emptiness) shares some of the best advice she's received about the...
A Healthier Approach to Criticism of Your Art/Work
Criticism sucks but it's necessary if we're to grow as writers. Unless you're content to keep your work in a notebook in closed drawer,...
Bringing the Dead (Projects) Back to Life
On Monday, we shared an article about the sunk cost fallacy, and knowing when it's time to put two tears in a bucket and...
Take a Break From Writing to Get Back in Touch
The modern writing community - mostly online - uses word count and pages written as the all but exclusive measure of productivity. But there's...
Susan Orlean: The First Reader You Have to Win is Yourself
During an interview with Lit Hub Radio's Threshold podcast, Susan Orlean talks about the risk of telling stories that don't have an obvious built-in...
