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15 Writing Tips & Touchstones to Return to Each Time Your Momentum Slows or Stops

23 October 3 Comments

No matter how much you love a writing project — whether a novel, anthology of short fiction or poetry, memoir, screenplay, non-fiction book, series or course — sometimes after the initial buzz of inspiration and flurry of work, things shift. Maybe you hesitate because of doubt or that nagging feeling that what you’re doing is no good and that unease filters into your work.

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9 Practices to Inspire Your Writing in an Instant

12 November 6 Comments

When writing is such a deep and vital part of your life, everything can feel off-centre if you are not engaging in the act itself and writing. It’s one of the greatest ironies of all when writers do not do the very thing the love the most and write. Equally, when our writing refuses to flow […]

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Alan Watts on How to Be a Writer

5 August Leave a Comment

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, […]

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Poetry | What to Remember When Waking ~ David Whyte

14 June Leave a Comment

What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can […]

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