Skip to content

Word Inventions

Branching out with my writing

Home
Prewriting Course Content
Interested in 1000+ writing prompts?
Goodwill Words

Tag Archives: Neil Gaiman

Curation Corner: One writer’s mindshift

Image by Radu Florin/Unsplash

Picked up this Neil Gaiman gem in a Quora discussion:

What one tip changed your writing forever?

Posted byTMHFebruary 25, 2020Posted incuration, Inspiration, Writing, writing tips, Writing WebsitesTags:Neil Gaiman, Writing, writing advice, writing tipsLeave a comment on Curation Corner: One writer’s mindshift

Recent Posts

Goodwill Words: A Preview
Curation Corner: 9 Ways to Chip Away at Writer’s Block
Curation Corner: Quotes to inspire writers
Curation Corner: focusmate.com
Gift for a retired friend

Take My Free Prewriting Course

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Join 487 other subscribers

Archives

Search for:

Recent Comments

	Side Hustle Spark 31… on Curation Corner: focusmate.com
	Curation Corner: Con… on Curation Corner: Write so…
	Goodwill words: She… on Goodwill words: Support during…
	Goodwill words: Supp… on Goodwill words: Support during…
	the5thsparrow on Goodwill words: Laughing at…

Tags

5 Ways to Get Back to Blogging After a Long Break 15-minute work intervals 30-Day Challenge 31 Day Challenge 90-Day Novel 90-Day Rewrite 99-U 200 words at-a-sitting 201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity 500 Word Challenge 500 words 750 Words 2018 50000 words Abi Fox Accidental Creative accidental genius acclaim Act of Kindness Writing A Day in the Life of a Writer addapinch.com adobe.com adv adversity advice advice for writers advicetowriters.com Aerogramme Writers Studio Alan Watt albums Alex Markovich Alice Florence Orr Ali Luke Alison Motluk Allen Ginsberg allergies alpacas Amar Vyas amateur Amazon Amy Ng Andrew Weil Anne Lamott anonymity AOK Writing apostrophes apple cake apple pie apples arm wrestling artist date Artists Ashleigh Brilliant assigned play As Time Goes By atonement attention deficit attention span audience audiobooks Austin Kleon Austin Powers authorial laryngitis Author Marketing Club auto-cubicle AutoCrit babies background noise Bakeries baking Baking instead of writing Barrie Davenport Barry Knister baseball BBC bear statue Become an Idea Machine beer batter bread bees behance.net be interesting Ben Angel best of... betterscribe.com biscotti biscotti dipped in chocolate biscuits blackout poems blame others for not writing bliss station blogging blueberries board game creation bobblehead dolls bobbypowers.net Boffo Bon Appetit book Bookalyzer bookbub.com book marketing tutorials book reviews booksbywomen.org Boo the dog brain cramp Brain Pickings brainpickings brainzooming bread pudding Breast Cancer Awareness Month Brian Clark brodieedu.com Bryan Cohen Bryan Collins Buddy the dog bullet journal bunny suit Business Insider butchering C.S. Lakin Cafe Beaujolais Coffee Cake Camilla Bruce careers Carly Mae car rental cat cats Chambers Brothers Change the world chapters in one's life character characters characters grow and change cheating on goals cheese bread childhood chile verde Chinua Achebe chocolate chip chocolate chip skillet cookie chocolate forgiveness cake chocolate zucchini cake Chris Guillebeau Christopher Connors cinnamon rolls citiesatdawn.com citizen scientist classified ads Claudia Azula Claudia Azula Altucher Clever Coffee Dripper Clive James Clocks by Coldplay clothing clueless clutter coffee college bowling Colt League Colum McCann comfort comfortpit.com comparison comparisonitis competition compromise with editor Concept List concept mapping confidence conflict consistency contest context switching conversational skills converse with your characters cooking Cool Hand Luke coping Copyblogger copyblogger.com corkboard Cory Putman Oakes Costco couples courage Covid create create-your-own-writers-conference creative inspiration Creative Penn creatives creative thinking creative writing creativity creativity projects Cris Freese Cristian Mihai criticism critics crunch time curation curation for writers curiosity cut goal in half Cynthia Morris Dabble Hour dabbling daily expectations Daily Writing Tips Dana Simpson Dan Barden Dan Brown dandelions Dan Goodwin Dan Millman Dating dating advice Dating wisdom davidbenami.com David Gaughran Day in the Life deadline deadlines Dear Abby decadence declutter democracy Denison Farms depth Derek Sivers destiny detours Devi S. Laskar devotion Dian Smith dictation Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Die Empty Dilbert DirtySciFiBuddha disappointment displacement activities distraction distractions diva DIY Author dog dogs dog story donut holes Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You Dorie Greenspan Dr. Jean Carruthers driving while writing E.B. White eating instead of writing eavesdropping ecards Eclectic's Journal Eclectic Journal editing editing for writers editors elementary school Elizabeth Grace Saunders Ellen DeGeneres Emily Wenstrom Emma Coats emoji prompts empty your head end-of-year resolutions endorphins energy build-up English language Entrepreneur entrepreneurship environment Epicurious ergonomics Erika Dreifus Ernest Hemingway espionage even-keel Everlast evolving excuses exercise experiment experimentation exploitation eye for details failure fake news family dogs family members farm produce fashion Fast Company father fear-setting fears fellow writers fiction finding stories finding time to write finish! Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done finishing fireworks first date flawfulness flexible thinking flow for writers focusmate.com Food Food Network foolscap football free freebies for writers free books free time freewalking fresh ideas for writers Frisbee golf frontiers frustration Fudgy Mocha Bars galette gardening genetics genius George Hirsch getting in the flow getting things done giving up goals Goins Goinswriter.com golf good advice Good News Network Goodreads goodwill words Goodwill Words Project Google Docs graffiti grammar grammatical errors gratisography gratitude greeting cards groove guilt Guy Fieri H.M. Gooden habits Habit Stacking hacking elections Haley Shapley Hallmark Halloween Hannah Brencher Hannah Grace Happy New Year! head down Hell Yeah or No Helping Writers Become Authors Hemingway bridge Henriette Anne Klauser Henry David Thoreau Henry Miller Herding Tigers Hiding Places Hilary B. Price Hilary Mantel homeless Honoree Corder hootsuite Hope Bolinger hoppin' john horoscope horsing around Hour of focus http://thewritewire.tumblr.com/ https://sive.rs/blog https://www.byrdseed.com/emoji2/ huffingtonpost.com HuffPost Hugh MacLeod Humor hypercriticism Ian Svenonius ice cream Idea Machine ideas ideas for writers ideation If You Can Talk You Can Write image search imagination impostor syndrome impromptu photo story infants Ingrid Sundberg inner critic inner voice Inspiration inspiration for writers Inspiration Software inspiration to write Internet Scout Report interruptions inventwithwords.com Isaac Asimov I should be writing J.D. Barker J.K. Rowling J. Thorn jackals Jack Heffron Jacob Cass James Altucher James Clear James McLean James Patterson James Taylor Jane Friedman Jane Porter Jeanna Bray Jeff Goins Jenna Moreci Jessica Hische Jessica James Jessica Lourey Jill Badonsky Jillicious Bakery Jim Kukral JK Rowling Joanna Gaines Joanna Penn Joan Wickersham jobs Joe Bunting Joe Fassler Joel at Lifehack Joel Saltzman John Cougar Mellencamp John Gardner Jon Acuff Jon Brooks Jon Winokur Jordan Rosenfeld Joseph Finder joyofbaking.com Jules Renard Julia Cameron JUMBLE® Just say no K.M. Weiland Kay Bolden keep going kettle corn Kleon laptop as doorstop Larry L. King Larry Page late for your date Lauren Ebsary laurenslatest.com laziness leaf blowers learn your 'why' Leave It to Beaver left brain legacy.com Leo Babauta Leonardo da Vinci Leon Legothetis lessons for writers lessons from writing Lewis Grizzard Libba Bray Library life changes Lifehack Like button Likue lithub.com Little League live creatively live longer LiveWriteThrive Living life lizard brain loss of pet Louder Than Words Louise Hay love Love for Our Elders loveforourelders.org Lydia Davis Maida Heatter making a living maloneeditorial.com manscaping March Madness Margaret Atwood Maria Popova Mark Dawson Marketing Martha Stewart Marthastewart.com Mary Oliver marzipan MasterClass Matthew Walker meanderings Medium.com memoir memories mentor Michael Greger Microsoft Word Mike Brown mindfulness mindmapping mini-course mini-muffins mini-pies Mira James Mysteries mirror neurons misdemeanor momontimeout.com More Love Letters moreloveletters.com morning habits morning pages Mother's Day muffin muffins multitasking Nancy Graham Holm NANOWRIMO Naomi Alderman nap NASA Natalie Goldberg National Make a Dog's Day National Novel Writing Month Naval Ravikant naysayers NBA neighborhood attractions Neil Gaiman Neil Pasricha new fence New Scientist news fast New York Times nextstepenglish.net Nir Eyal Noisli non-conformity non-fiction Nonna's biscotti No Plot No Problem Nora Roberts nose to the grindstone notebook notebooks Obituaries objectivity observation obstacles obstacles to productivity off-beat office workers one's own boss one of those nights online scams online writing course openculture.com open educational resources Operation We Are Here opportunities optimism orange marmalade cake Oregon Oreo Mini outlines Outlining outreach outside the box overanalysis overcoming fear overcoming resistance oversharing overthinking overwhelm pandemic passage of time pattypan Paul Coelho Paul Jun Pearls Before Swine pelinti people skills pep talk perfection perfectionism permission persistence pets Philomath photo photographs photo prompt photo prompts physiology Picasso Pie picture book pie pie crust Pinterest pity party pixabay Pixar pizza plagiarism plot generators plums plurals podcastreview.org Poets & Writers poker popcorn positive affirmations pound cake PowerPoint practice Practicing Writer 2.0 Pressfield Prewriting priorities prioritizing privacy ProBlogger process not product procrasticooking procrastination Produced with Genetic Engineering productiveflourishing.com productivity productivity for writers profanity progress chart proofreading public performances pupusa Quentin Tarantino quiche quora.com quotes for writers rabbits Ralph Keyes rant ras-el-hanout rationalizations for writers Ray Bradbury Raymond Chandler readership Reading reasons for blogging reasons to write recipes reclusiveness Reedsy reflection regret rejection reminders remove the past rescue shelter resistance resolution resolutions resources for writers retiredguys.net retirees retirement retirerenew retirerenew.com revision rewriting Rhymes With Orange Richard Branson Richard Feynman Richard St. John riffs right brain Risk-taking and writing rituals Robert Lee Brewer Robie Rogge Robyn Stone Rocketbook role-playing Rose Bowl Roses in the Rubble Rotisserie chicken Roy Williams rules Rules for Working in a Studio rules for writing Russell Wilson rut Ryan Holiday S.J. Scott Sadie Chelsea safety Sage Cohen Sam Smith Samuel Johnson Sarah Laskow Sarra Cannon sci-fi science fiction Scott Kenemore scratching Scribe Book School Scribe Media scribemedia.com scribewriting.com search for stories sea urchin seekerville.blogspot.com seize the day self-imposed pressures self-indulgence self-publishing self-talk selfish Sell More Books Show sending tributes sentencedict.com seth godin shampoo ShapeShifterFitness Shaunta Grimes shemomedjamo short attention span short fiction Show Your Work side hustle Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days sidehustlecurator.com Sierra Prasada Simply Recipes skeptical sleep sleep deprivation Slow and steady small deadlines snooping solar eclipse Somerset Maugham sonder sophomore slump sourdough biscuits Spencer Quinn spies as writers squash Srini Rao Srinivas Rao Start Small Stefanie Flaxman Stefanie London Stephanie Jaworski Stephen King Steven Kotler Steven Pressfield stories everywhere StoryBistro story prompts Story Starters storytelling Stovetop Chocolate Cake strawberry cream cheese pie stromboli subsconscious successfulblogging.com Sue Anne Dunlevie Summer of '70 Sunni Brown sunshine squash sunshine squash pie Super Bowl Susan Mary Malone Susie Orman Schnall suspense Swedish death cleaning take your turn taking action talent Tara Noland Tara Rodden Robinson Teachable teacher Teacher Appreciation Week teaching Team Hoyt TED talk telepathic writing teleport temper tantrum Thanksgiving turkey The 60's The Accidental Creative The Artist's Way The Bread Board The Creative Penn The Creative Self Workbook The Doodle Revolution The Guardian The Happiness of Pursuit The Hemingway App thehonestwriter.org The Incomplete Book of Retirement Wisdom The Kindness Diaries The Middle the organized writer the power of reading The Practicing Writer The Right to Write the voice The War of Art The Wizard of Ads thewritepractice.com The Writer's Nook The Writer's Idea Book thewriterscafe247 the writing life Think Different When Writing thisissand app Tim Denning Time Has Come Today timer time warp Tim Ferriss Tim Grahl Tina Essmaker toasted-cheese.com Todd Brison Todd Henry tofu tofu spread tongue-in-cheek tools for writers Tools of Titans totality track pads Trader Joe's trying to please people try new Tucker Max turkeys Turning Pro Twitter Twitter gems Ugly Delicious un-career unconventional Unmistakable Creative unmistakeable Unsplash up close look at your own writing vappingo.com vegetables video writing prompt vinyl LPs virtual assistant vocabulary voice typing vote waiver Walter Isaacson wardrobe warmup Web gems websiteplanet.com websites for writers weedwhackers weekend What's next? whoopie pies Why not you? Why Only is Better Than Best Why We Sleep William Faulkner William Zinsser willingness to fail wisdom word clouds word inventions word puzzles work-life balance workload World Domination Summit wor wonton soup Write a Letter--Change a Life write down your ideas write for yourself Write It Down Make It Happen Write Like a Dog writer's advice writer's block writer's check-in writer's checklist writer's choice Writer's Digest writer's distractions writer's doubts writer's ear writer's exile writer's eye writer's fears writer's focus writer's group writer's life writer's overwhelm writer's persistence writer's productivity Writer's Relief writer's schedule writer's stubbornness writer's voice writer hangups writer musings writer resolutions writers writers' adversaries writers and laundry writers avoid boredom writers conference writers de-stress writers horoscope writers ink writers interviewing characters writers killing time writers reading writers relentlessness writersrelief.com writers resourcefulness Writer Unboxed Write to Done writetodone.com Writing writing ad writing advice writing and dogs writing and humor writing conference writing days writing demons writing exercises writing experiment writing for the joy of it writing genre writing genre series Writing Gurus writing hacks writing highs writing humor writing infographic writing inspiration writing in your car writing locations writing lows writing mentor writing mini-course writing podcasts writing process writing productivity writing projects writing prompt Writing prompts writing retreat writing routine writingroutines.com writing rut writing tips writingtipsoasis.com writing to help others writing to support others writing tributes writing tutorials writing warmup Writing Warmups writing while driving writing wisdom writing with abandon writing with a purpose writing word cloud Yanik Silver You Are a Writer You Must Write a Book YouTube Zach Bohannon Zen in the Art of Writing zerotohero

Meta

Register
Log in
Entries feed
Comments feed
WordPress.com

Word Inventions,

Follow Following
- Word Inventions
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

Loading Comments...

Write a Comment...

Email (Required)

Name (Required)

Website

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy