Tag: writing advice
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When You Haven’t Written
I am exhausted. Tired. After clearing out a bag’s worth of junk from some of my little areas of the house, playing with my son in the snow, running out and getting stuff for my wife, I realized that I hadn’t taken the time to blog or much less write at all today. It now…
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Good Habits Die Easy
Resurrecting good habits has been on my mind lately. Specifically I speak of some old writing habits that I had in the past. Even the recent past. Two come to mind as habits that I should look into bringing back: writing 100 words every time I log onto a computer and writing 500 words before…
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Cluttered Mind
It took me two weeks to start writing a poem. There it was, sitting in my brain taking up valuable space. I wasn’t writing it down. Even having notebooks and cell phones available when there wasn’t a computer even, I, for some reason, chose to hold onto it. Kept it hovering in my thoughts as…
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How Not to Be a Writer: an instruction manual in reverse
So, you don’t want to be a writer? Good. This is definitely for you. These are the instructions on how not to be a writer at whatever stage of not wanting to write that you are at: Do not open your notebook (if you write via pen and paper) or that pesky word processing program.…