Category Archives: writer’s block

Guest Bloggers: An Invitation

AT FEAR OF WRITING, guest bloggers come in all shapes and sizes. Some may be very experienced and some may not. If you don’t have a book or blog of your own, please don’t assume you’re not qualified to write for this blog. Even someone with severe writer’s block who hasn’t done much writing yet…

Mindy Speaks Her Fear About the 10K Day

MINDY LAWRENCE of MPL Creative has kindly allowed me to reprint some remarks she had shared by email. This might be helpful to others, so I admire her courage in allowing me to include her name on this post. Also, I know a technique that Mindy—or anyone experiencing fear or writer’s block—can use to encourage…

Writer’s Block? Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge

By Milli Thornton THREE DAYS BEFORE Christmas, 2003, I was sitting in Wired! coffee house with Theresa and Daniel, two members of the Taos, New Mexico Fertile Material Writing Circle. We were in the throes of what we always do in these writing circles, which is to pick a writing prompt from my book, write…