By Milli Thornton In a post called Words for the Picking on the wordsxo blog, Julia Munroe Martin was pondering blueberries and writer’s block. At the end of the post, she asked How is your writing going? Are your words there for the picking or do you sometimes feel barren of words? Having used my…
Category Archives: writer’s block
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…
j’s Journey: Rejection Like Snow
By Judy Clement Wall As soon as Milli and I decided to expand the j’s Journey series to include all aspects of writing for publication, I knew that, at some point, I’d be writing about rejection. There may be writers out there submitting their work who never feel the sting of an editor’s “Thank you…
The Great Writer’s Block Debate
By Judy Clement Wall On the question of writers’ block, there are definitely two camps. There are those who have lived the agony of it, and those that say it simply doesn’t exist. I could write pages and pages about how terrible it is, how I think it’s not so much a block (which would…
Cheap Therapy
By Milli Thornton Sometimes, even when I’m completely eager to work on my current story, I have fear of starting a new writing session. There’s that fear I won’t know where to go next with my story. Or only slightly less intimidating (if I have an outline to work with), that I won’t know how…
Fear: The Dream Stealer
By guest blogger Ja’Nese Dixon “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” I think I live by this Tim Ferriss quote. It has become somewhat of a mantra when I’m fighting the urge to talk myself out of doing something for no other reason than being a scaredy-cat. No…
Guest Blogger, Darryl Dawson – “Stop” And Smell The Roses
Now that a trip to the dentist, some menial errands and a rather unpleasant headache have all concluded, it’s time to talk to you about one of my favorite subjects—writing. As many of you know, writing is a challenging process that can yield an overflowing cup of reward on many levels, but only if it…
The Big Secret About Fear
THE BIG SECRET about fear that gets under-used is that we writers have the perfect opportunity to use fear to our advantage. Our fear helps us recognize and describe complexities where others would never even look. Combine this with a writer’s natural powers of expression and you have a huge, untapped source of energy for…
Survey: What is the nature of your fear of writing beast?
From our survey choices below, please copy and paste one (or several, if applicable) into the Comments section of this post. Feel free to elaborate on your choice(s) if you feel moved to. Thank you for participating! What is the biggest factor in your fear of writing? – The savage and critical voice in my…
