The Myth of Perfection

Perfect is no place for a writer. Listen to me: you will never write a perfect novel, short story, essay, blog post, sentence. Everything you write will be criticized. If it's not, then it has been ignored. Your job is not to write perfect sentences. Stop thinking it...

It Doesn’t Matter What You Write

What should you be writing? A blog post? A short story? A novel? A poem? A guest post for another blog? I believe in focused goals. To build a career in writing (if that is what you're going for), you need them. You have to write long pieces of work, books usually,...

Why Do You Write? [VIDEO]

Why do you write? You make sacrifices to write. You give up time you could spend with friends and family. You give up time you could be playing facebook games. You might take big risks to write, like living on less money than most of the people you know. On a bigger...