What gets you in the mood? Writing rituals are surprisingly important to me and I always forget that until I try writing without first going through a number of them. A ritual is anything that gets you into the mindset that you are now going to sit down and produce Read more…
I’m sure this has happened to you. You get all fired up about a new writing project and you write like blazes for an hour, or two. The words flow on the page. You feel like you are channeling the story, not creating it. It’s so easy. Ah, you say, this Read more…
Pretty much everyone starts out wanting to write the same way: I can do that. You know, you read something that you find wanting and you think, “how did that get published? Jeez, anybody can do that.” My particular I can do that came when I read the magazine Marion Read more…