By Milli Thornton I WAS OVER on @Wordstrumpet‘s blog (don’t you just love that Twitter handle?!) reading a post called You Can Do It! when I had an aha moment. Charlotte Rains Dixon was talking about her habits of procrastination after promising herself a writing session. And about what works best for her to get…
Category Archives: inspiration/motivation
The view from my office window . . . and beyond
By Milli Thornton Today I have a special post for you. This is about two familiar yet ever-changing views that feed my writing a nourishing diet of nature, color and the antics of local critters. My inspiration for this post came like a double ice-cream cone of yummy, from two other bloggers on the same…
j’s Journey: Writerly Angst (and who needs it)
By Judy Clement Wall Some time ago, a writer I used to read frequently posed this question: “What does the writer have to write about if she’s living a frictionless life?” The question seems academic, I know, because who lives a frictionless life, right? It’s hard to even imagine. But the writer asking the question…
Spider: Creativity and Weaver of Fate
By Milli Thornton In a post earlier this month, Writing for the End of the World, I decided to use talk of 2012 being the end of the world as a way to explore what I would do if this really was the last year of my life. I said: All I know is that…
Care and Feeding of My Muse
By Milli Thornton. Photos Copyright © Brian Williams and Milli Thornton SO MUCH OF the writing advice out there is about actual writing. I think it’s too easy to forget that what we do with the rest of our lives counts toward how we feel about our writing. This is already obvious to some people…
j’s Journey: In search of the muse
By Judy Clement Wall I’m a huge fan of bentlily. If you haven’t visited her site, you should. Her real name is Samantha. She’s a writer and new mom who, instead of making resolutions for 2011, committed to writing a poem every day. Here’s what she wrote about her decision: I pledged to write one…
Should You Write When You’re Tired?
By Milli Thornton I MET A writer on Twitter the other day who writes for a living. He expressed unhappiness with his own writing, so I asked what the block was. He said, “It’s exhausting to write fiction after a long day of cranking copy.” Sometimes the only thing to do is rest. Or read….
How do you get yourself out of a funk so you can write?
By Milli Thornton AS OFTEN AS possible, I try to set aside Wednesdays for my own writing. I don’t make appointments, I don’t visit other people’s blogs and I don’t tweet. I don’t work on my To-Do list or run errands. Usually, Brian will cook dinner that day so I can roll with whatever momentum…
Thrilling First Results of the “Travel Writer Crash Course”
THE FIRST WRITER who read the Travel Writer Crash Course here on the Fear of Writing blog (which takes about 10 minutes to read) did not think she was qualified to participate in the program—but she took the risk of applying and has had a wonderful experience so far. Here is the story behind the…
Meeting the Muse
By guest blogger Joan Lambert Bailey This piece first appeared on Joan’s blog, Popcorn Homestead, and is reprinted here with permission. Written while she was participating in the 2011 Blogathon. Today’s theme for the Blogathon (five places I like to write) is one I’m really struggling with as it touches on a rather sensitive topic…
