Boost Your Writing Confidence with Small Goals
We love those little moments when we realize we've mastered an element of writing. Maybe we stumble on a reliable method for strengthening our...
How to be Great and Imperfect
Perfectionism is a pernicious evil. We've shared other articles discussing how perfectionism hurts your productivity and your ability to call any project complete, leaving...
Time to Give Yourself – and Your Writing – a Break
We've spoken before about the modern nonsense of constant productivity, word sprints, weekend novels, and the like. Finish a manuscript on Saturday, publish on...
How to Love Your Writing
This editor admits he is greatly confused by writers who hate writing. Dorothy Parker famously said, "I hate writing but I love having written."...
Slow and Steady Often Wins the Literary Race
Lit Hub shares a few excerpts from Annie Dillard's instructional book, The Writing Life.
In these passages, Dillard skewers the modern taste for writing excess,...
Write with a Song In Your Heart
A new post on the Writers Write blog shares advice on writing from popular songwriters, including Dolly Parton, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and Shaun...
We Have a Cacoethes to Fudgel
We love lists of obscure words and made-up words, including an obsession of popular Facebook share about new words for emotions we can't name....
Ben Winters: Old Enough and Good Enough to Dive Deeper in...
During an interview with Lit Hub's I’m a Writer But...podcast, Ben Winters (The Last Policeman series, The Quiet Boy) talks about migrating away from...
Mindset Tools for Writers
If you're using the turn of the new year to reassess your creative goals and continuous learning, you're not alone. In a post on...
That’s a Killer Idea
It's common for new writers to ask veterans where they get their ideas. There are a million answers to this question and also no...
