I’m working on a mini-course, so I’ll be posting some of the activities here. The activities are intended for a range of writers, though seasoned veterans may not be interested. Again, I’ll be using this site to park some of my works. Here is the short, non-narrated activity.
Totally unrelated to writing, I admit. Just had to include the neighborhood bear’s take on our current state of panic.For some of us, though, it might be another reason to stay home and put in a few more words than usual.
Picked up this Neil Gaiman gem in a Quora discussion: What one tip changed your writing forever?
This quote from William Zinsser [On Writing Well is his best-known work.] takes an opposite tack to yesterday’s Writing With No Direction post. Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard Read more…
This snappy piece by David Ben-Ami really speaks to the value of Julia Cameron’s ‘morning pages’. (Dropping two names in one sentence. Have I no shame?)
The ordinary writer is bound to be assailed by insecurities as he writes. Is the sentence he has just created a sensible one? Is it expressed as well as it might be? Would it sound better if it were written differently? The ordinary writer is therefore always revising, always chopping Read more…
It’s easy to urge each other to crank out ideas and imagery. Countless articles and posts urge us to dive in and heat up that pen or keyboard. But what about those next steps, where the real work kicks in? Copyblogger editor-in-chief Stefanie Flaxman’s Traffic Light Revision Technique weaves much-needed, Read more…