There are some helpful habits you can nurture as a writer that will improve your skills. Some of the habits help capture creativity, while others are ways to survive the writing process. Writing is not easy for the vast majority of individuals. The difficulties we experience come from a variety…
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Writers are influenced by what they see, hear, and read. Most writers were and are avid readers. Writers interested in stage and screen tend to support those media, too. As a result, the works of other writers influence a writer. List your five favorite writers and three favorite genres. Now…
While some writers seem to have the ability to write “on demand,” most of us are not so fortunate. We have to learn to find inspiration and capture it on paper (or screen). Excercises help writers, but they seldom lead to complete stories. Daily Page(s) Even if you aren’t a…
Writer’s block — the one convenient excuse writers all lean upon at one time. Writing and other forms of artistic talent are not magical gifts revealing themselves only when they want to take over our minds. This is not to say there are no great moments of inspiration. Emotions definitely…
“I need to read 100 books this year,” our daughter declared at the start of her kindergarten year. At first, I thought this was a misunderstanding, but it wasn’t. Our local elementary school uses the Accelerated Reader (AR) program. They count books read. They check the levels and log them.…