Tag: writing process
-
This Careless Writer
The difference between being a careless writer and one who is working towards growing as a writer is precisely the latter. Until recently, I was pretty sure that I was growing. Maybe I was, but I feel now that I was more the former, rushing to get work out into the world before it was…
-
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…
-
On Building A Brand
It seems rather amusing that I should be writing about something that I am only familiar with on concept alone. In other words, I don’t know shit about brand building other than it being a thing. I know what a brand is. I just don’t really know much else. Except that it can be very…
-
10 Open Projects
That’s really is 9 too many. And I don’t mean that there are 10 projects that I am outlining or planning out. No, these are projects that I am actively writing or have started writing. Way too many. As part of my word tracking spreadsheet, I had added a rough, simple project tracker. Yesterday I…
-
The Timing is Perfect
Wasn’t I just talking about this? About my recently relearning to write by hand rather than doing everything on the computer? In a post featured on The Passive Voice, linking to a blog on selfpublishingadvice.org, writer T E Shepherd describes how he prefers to write the first draft of his books out by hand. He…
