The Horror. The Blank Page.
The blank page. Empty, oddly silent. It is both a terrifying place, yet a place of possibility. Depending on what you’re writing, the blank page can be fun or a total freak out. It is especially hard when you are writing a memoir or writing stories that are personal. The closer you get to the private moments the more you might fear what people think, but it’s in the private moments that you tap into a universal place for all of us to relate to. Your job as a writer is to let it all out. Your stories might seem frivolous or mundane to you, but everyone...
Read MoreWalking Off A Cliff: Writer’s Block
“It’s not like you don’t have a choice, because you do — you can either type, or kill yourself.” ~ Anne Lamotte ~ The truth is that most writers don’t like to write. Here is what they like: to have already written. Writers block sucks, but is there really such a thing? Seth Godin writes about “talkers block”: “No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is...
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