Let’s overcome creative block by playing Shiritori, a Japanese word game, where the first letter of a word is the last letter of the previous word.
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The Four Faces of Writing Fears
Just as we dress up in costumes at Halloween, our fears often disguise themselves, too. It’s natural to have fears when it comes to your writing. After all, we make a business of pouring our heart out onto the page and sharing it with the world.
But don’t let these fears hold you back!
A Walk Through Scrivener’s User Interface
In the Scrivener walkthroughs and workshops I’ve done, one of the most common complaints from new users is that the interface is confusing and overwhelming. People find it difficult to get used to new software, and so they give up before they even get started.
How to Write Like Hamilton
Three tips on how to write like Alexander Hamilton the person from watching the Hamilton musical.
Five Tips for Reaching Your NaNoWriMo Goal
NaNoWriMo is upon us again! I’m sure some of you are jumping out of your desk chair with excitement, but others are still nervous. It is intimidating, after all. 50,000 words in one month? Insanity.
Luckily, it’s not as hard as it looks. And with these five tips, it’ll look even easier.
Write From The Perspective of a Shoe
We know what it feels like to be human and write from the perspective of a human. But, what does it feel like to be a shoe or a pencil or a dictionary? And, why should we even try to write from the perspective of a shoe? What does a shoe think? Do they prefer walking...
4 Reactions I Get When I Tell People “I Am a Writer”
“I am a writer.”
In America, where so often our job defines who we are, these four little words can throw a wrench into the gears of polite conversation.
3 Ways to NOT Fail at NaNoWriMo
It’s almost time for that annual, month-long festival for writers, NaNoWriMo. Are you going to subject yourself to the excitement and stress of writing a book at least 50,000 words long in a single month?
If you’re participating in NaNoWriMo this year, you may feel a bit nervous about whether you’re going to be able to finish. Honestly, you should be nervous.
Here’s the truth: almost ninety percent of people who start NaNoWriMo don’t finish.
How do you make sure that you don’t fail?
Does it Matter What Your Character Wears?
The first time I wrote a short story (that others would read), I spent a lot of time describing the character’s clothes. This choice received a lot of criticism. It made my character seem shallow. It made the woman seem cliché.
My critics were probably right that I overdid it at the time, but I stand by my response, which was this…
A Brief History of Creative Writing
It might help you put the glut of new creative writing tools flooding the market into perspective by examining the history out of which these creative technologies have emerged.
Like all technology, new tools are built on the foundation of the technology that came it. Let’s take a quick journey through the history of creative writing tools so that we can evaluate modern creative writing in a historical context.