The Writer's Workout

What is Stream of Consciousness? The American Psychological Association uses the stream of consciousness as a metaphor for the loose, flowing, and relatively unstructured form of our thoughts. For example, as I’m writing this blog I’m reminded of all the times I’ve written essays for school. But if my thoughts were perfectly transcribed onto paper, they wouldn’t look like the structured sentences I’m currently writing. They would probably look more like this. “Words lines wor

The advice on writing routines is endless and contradictory. Many aspiring novelists will be familiar with the idea that you must write every single day, preferably at the same time of day, and hit the same word count. Spend some time digging for it and you will surely find the opposite advice too—don’t force yourself to write when you don’t feel like it because if you don’t like doing it, you won’t do it at all. Contradictory advice becomes frustrating when you feel like yo

It's finally happened. The words are spilling forth, ink's spraying everywhere and/or keys are clicking at a pace too fast to hear as...

Writing a story is like sculpting a statue, carefully chiseling away at ideas to break them down and create something new and whole....

Writing doesn’t have vocal chords or speakers. It doesn’t create any sound you can hear with your ears. And yet, writing speaks to us,...

One year. 12 blog posts. And a whole lot of courage. Before we draw our Year of Courage to a close, I want to open the door for a little...

One of the many beauties of the writing community is its diversity. Writing connects people across different genres, ages, nationalities,...