Writing blogs or articles on writing, teaching classes on the subject, even attending said classes is one of the hardest things you can/will ever do. I can stand and tell you the basics of my experiences, or of my fellow writer-friends’ experiences and I can do my best to encourage and support you – but… Continue reading The Impossibility of ‘How To Write’
I know. It seems like a weird choice for a topic. How could a mistake be a good thing? We spend hours, days, months (years, in my case) editing or writing. We fix the spelling, wording, syntax. We re-write whole sections of work to show our writing at its very best. But, hear me… Continue reading Writing and Why Mistakes Can Be A Good Thing
It’s New Year again, everybody. Give yourself a round of applause. We made it. We can tell our descendants that we saw a repeated-number year; we got to see all the silly ‘seeing 2020’ jokes that were/are going around. We did it. With New Year comes the old adage, the resolution inspired phrase ‘New… Continue reading Mental Health and Writing (An Anxiety Meltdown)
Looking for the smallest mistake in a sea of sentences. It’s arguably the worst part about writing. It sucks all life out of the piece, makes you feel less confident in your words minute by minute and overall is something you would rather somebody else did for you (and yet something you also wouldn’t entrust… Continue reading Editing an Old Piece
The Literary Onion 