15 Writing Tips & Touchstones to Return to Each Time Your Momentum Slows or Stops
A. L. Kennedy’s 10 Rules for Writing Fiction
Acupressure to Ease Creative Doubt
Julia Cameron on Why We Should Write
Find Your Motivation & Increase Energy with These Ancient Techniques
10 Quick Tips for Writing Fiction By Andrew Motion
Poetry | How Tired I Am, My Love By Nikka Ursula
Find Clarity & Presence with a Swift Meditation for Busy Creatives
9 Ways to Make Peace with the Inner Critic
Author Alice Munro On Story
Roddy Doyle’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
Poetry | Sonnet XVII By Pablo Neruda
15 Ways to Fall in Love with Writing [All Over Again]
Rainer Maria Rilke on Trusting in Nature, Loving Small Things & Living Questions
Happy Birthday Nina Simone [& a Brief Blog Hiatus]
Anne Enright’s Finest 10 Tips for Writing Fiction
9 Potent Ways to Use Music to Enhance Your Writing
Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo—Arte, Amor, Dolor: Pain & the Healing Power of Art
7 Tools to Liberate Yourself From Writing Doubt
Ursula K. Le Guin on Where We Get Our Ideas From
Poetry | Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, gladly beyond — e. e. cummings
Annie Dillard on How We Spend Our Lives & Presence Over Productivity
Poetry | Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines) By Pablo Neruda
15 Tools Inspired by Eastern Wisdom to Find Stillness in a Storm Part II
Madeleine L’Engle on the 3 Most Important Things for Writers
Are You an Introverted Intuitive Writer? Why the 2 Most Common Pieces of Writing Advice Probably Won’t Work for You
Anais Nin on June Miller—& a Rare Radio Interview
Enhance Your Curiosity, Creativity and Concentration with This Useful Acupressure Point
5 Essential Writing Habits I Learnt Ghost-Writing Bestsellers By Roz Morris
6 Liberating Ways to Let Go—Skin Shedding—An Essay by Louise Moulin
Vulnerability In Fiction: Teaching Jaded Characters How To Trust By Angela Ackerman
When Things Go Wrong—15 Tools Inspired By Eastern Wisdom to Find Stillness in a Storm Part I
[Interlude] Compassion, Vulnerability & My Unexpected Plot Twist
Mark Strand on Being in Creative Flow
George Saunders’ Short Animated Documentary on the Art of Storytelling
7-Step Process to Align Body, Mind and Soul for Optimum Creativity
Pema Chödrön on Why to Meditate
When Life Takes Over Your Writing—How to Find Clarity & Put the Drama on the Page
Poetry | Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
Diane Ackerman on Truly Living Our Lives
The Finest Way to Reignite Your Love of Writing
Frida Kahlo on Being Just as Strange as You
2 Minutes of Stillness | Meditation
10 Brilliant Tips for Writing Fiction Inspired by Famous Authors
15 Secrets to Achieving Your Creative Goals Every Day
Henry Miller on Art, Creation & Change
Music | Happy Birthday Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
Juice Bar | What to Eat to Keep Calm & Creative
10 Ancient Healing Tools to Relax, Ease Stress & Keep Your Creative Cool
Tom Robbins on Writing and Making a Fool of Yourself
Poetry | Call Me by My True Names By Thich Nhat Hanh
Natalie Goldberg on Stepping Out Your Own Way & How Writing Frees Us
Pema Chödrön on Tigers, Strawberries and the Preciousness of the Moment
Poetry | Remember By Joy Harjo
Sharon Saltzberg on Connection, Compassion and Loving Kindness
15 Ocean-Inspired Storytelling Tools & Tips
Brené Brown on Owning Your Story & the Power of Vulnerability
Joseph Conrad on Fiction, Art and the Power of the Written Word
Music | Be Fair With Me Baby By Billie Holiday
10 Rules for Writing Fiction by Helen Dunmore
Rainer Maria Rilke on Writing Being Your Purpose and Judging Art
7 Ways to Embrace Vulnerability and Write Truth
Pema Chödrön on the Moment, Not Taking Things Personally and Liberation
Creative Confidence: How to Believe in Yourself [and Your Art]
John Steinbeck’s 6 Tips for the Aspiring Writer
Poetry | The Secret By Denise Levertov
Tom Robbins on How to Make Love Stay
Free-Writing: The Secret of All Successful Writers
Creative Overwhelm: Slowing Down and Finding Stillness in a Busy World
Ira Glass on the Creative Process
Poetry | Elegy for the Living by Kathryn Simmonds
Anne Lamott on Perfectionism, People-Pleasing and Shooting for the Moon
Henry Miller’s 11 Tips to Writing Well
Poetry | Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks by Pablo Neruda
6 Ways to Liberate Your Creativity by Rebalancing Your Being
Picasso on Art, Instinct and the Shadow
7 Secrets to Unleash Your Creativity Inspired by Eastern Wisdom
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“Although it’s massively important for #writers to read other books… New material is around us all the time… in cafes, on trains, in doorways late at night… That is how we make people readers somehow recognise, and also have never read about before, and might never forget.”
“Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say.” ~ Ann Patchett #writingcommunity
Autumn sky ―
Floating clouds,
Becoming alone.
~ Santoka // #Photography: ‘Olden’ by Ole Henrik Skjelstad (ole.henrik.skjelstad) / https://buff.ly/Hy25Xtt #haiku #3lines
"The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.” ~ #MartinAmis #writingcommunity #authors
Martin Amis, The Art of Fiction No. 151
“Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.”
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“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ~ #LeonardCohen
Her palette knife
filled with
every shade of sky
~ Louise Hastings, @wingsoverwaters / https://wingsoverwaters.wordpress.com // #Photography: “Skybreath” by Maria Popova. (Available as a print.) #haiku
“#Writers can get fragmented by considering the elements of fiction individually… we forget that a novel, like a great symphony, is vastly more than the sum of its parts; it’s how they come together in harmony.” #writingtips
How to Turn Elements of Your Novel Into a Masterpiece
Get too focused on any one instrument at play in your story, and you may lose sight of the harmony inherent ...
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“Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.” ~ Julia Cameron #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
oh world, busy world
beneath the quietude
of stars
~ Ellie Krupich, @EllenKrupich // #Photography: ‘Silence’ by Angelo Andreolle #vss365 #micropoetry
