It’s Tough Out There, Kid: Learn to Make Your Own Opportunities
The days when a (white, male) writer could rely on talent and perseverance to create a writing career are long gone. While a lucky...
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...
Road Trip for Fun and Inspiration!
When writer Nick Petrie got stuck for ideas for his new novel, he loaded up his camping gear and took a road trip.
"Now, I...
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...
If You Can’t Manage Something Big, Work on Something Small
We know, we know - another day, another share about writing habits and goals. It's a new year. It'll die down.
In an article on...
Daily Words Add Up
Despite the heady rush of National Novel Writing Month and writers who claim to write 6-8 books a year, we are a firm proponent...
Your New Year’s Resolution Doesn’t Need to Change the World
Are you sick of reading about New Year's Writing Resolutions and ways to be more productive in 2022? We are too, maybe a little,...
