Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Lindsey Harper Mac. Please read more about Lindsey in the author’s footer.
Writer’s block. The words are enough to make any writer cringe. When you have writer’s block, you don’t know what to write next. Your mind may be blank, or you can’t think of anything new to [...]
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As a writer, I think it is important to continue your education in your craft, just like any career. The question is, is a formal degree necessary for writers or are other forms of education sufficient?
I will not debate this question here, since there are many schools of thought on this. But I do want [...]
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Becoming a better writer involves becoming a better reader. Reading inspires, implanting ideas that will soon transform into a writer’s own words.
Reading offers fresh perspective and provokes many of our own opinions and values that we can turn into an essay, poem, short story, or memoir.
A writer’s own life experiences and perspectives are often merged with [...]
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As a writer who has only begun to openly share my thoughts outside of a private journal entry for a few years, I am still discovering my own voice. We all have a writing voice, whether it is exposed in non-fiction, fiction, or poetry, it is there.
A writing voice comes through in most advanced writers. [...]
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George Clooney was on Inside the Actor’s Studio a few weeks ago, and a few things he said struck me as a writer.
He was talking about going in for auditions and the handling of rejection. I am paraphrasing here. Clooney stated as an actor, you are selling yourself. There is nothing else, so when you [...]
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Far removed from the days of typewriters, writers are faced with distractions right in front of their face as they write. The Internet.
As you are reading this right now, I bet many of you have multiple tabs or windows open in your browser.
Besides this one, I have eight other tabs open. Eight. Why? I don’t know. [...]
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