Jan 3, 2020
Nearly every word and every gesture you use, every belief you hold, no matter how innocent, is probably offensive, or highly inconsiderate someplace else. What about your writing, then? Should you try to be inoffensive when you write? 7.7 billion people are living on...
Jan 2, 2020
Most writers, long before they turn pro, spend their days preoccupied with writing. I should be writing more. Why am I not writing more? Why couldn’t I finish that scene yesterday? What’s wrong with me? How do I find more time to write? I know I should be writing...
Jan 1, 2020
Each time I sit down to write an article about a topic, I ask myself the following question: What’s interesting about this in a not-so-obvious way? What insight would the reader (that’s you) find valuable. Today there won’t be any insights because the topic of...
Dec 31, 2019
It’s New Year’s Eve, a time of reflection, worry, obsession, and making self-delusional promises. I thought I’d tackle some unhealthy writing worries so you can spend more time brooding over your eating habits like every other normal human being. Why, Why, Why? Why am...
Dec 30, 2019
The prospect of revisions sends most writers I know into depths of despair, so here’s a useful technique for you that helps make revisions stress-free. Our brains evolved on the vast plains of the African Savanah in times when obsessive behaviors were at a premium as...
Dec 28, 2019
Finding a story that matters is a tricky business. If you picked a story that matters to you and you only, you would’ve written a memoir. And memoirs by relatively unknown people don’t sell very well… if they sell at all. You need something that others care about too....
