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Don’t Know Where to Go Next With Your Writing? Congratulations! You’re on the Verge of a Breakthrough!

May 18, 2018

I’m fascinated by how we go from not knowing to knowing. Think about it. Everything you’ve ever written, everything anyone has ever written came from we-don’t-know-exactly-where. There was a time when those words, ideas, images, those characters didn’t exist. Then someone made scratches on a page or tapped out letters on a keyboard and entire … More Don’t Know Where to Go Next With Your Writing? Congratulations! You’re on the Verge of a Breakthrough!

Do Writers Need to Keep Our Butts in the Chair?

July 21, 2017

In 1937, Sinclair Lewis shared his version of an often repeated and often reworded bit of writerly wisdom: And as the recipe for writing, all writing, I remember no high-flown counsel but always and only Mary Heaton Vorse’s jibe, delivered to a bunch of young and mostly incompetent hopefuls back in 1911: ‘The art of … More Do Writers Need to Keep Our Butts in the Chair?