Category: writing exercise
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Breaking the Writer’s Block
Three o’clock in the morning, and I’ve been staring at the monitor for hours, unable to get anything coherent written. Banging my head on the desk doesn’t help, although it does dislodge a stack of papers exposing a CD I’ve been missing for months. I pop the CD into the player and wait for inspiration. […]
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Driving with the Top Down
I belong to a small, informal writer’s group which meets every Wednesday. We have a weekly writing prompt and the one for yesterday was ‘open windows’. Since spring is in the air, I got to thinking about some of the crazy stuff we did as kids to celebrate spring. Some of the following is true, […]
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To Outline or Not to Outline?
I continue to be amazed by people who make outlines of their stories, know where the story line is going and most of all know the ending before even writing the book. Who are these godlike folk and why am I not like them? I am a very off the cuff writer, I don’t know […]
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Breaking the Writer’s Block
Three o’clock in the morning, and I’ve been staring at the monitor for hours, unable to get anything coherent written. Banging my head on the desk doesn’t help, although it does dislodge a stack of papers exposing a CD I’ve been missing for months. I pop the CD into the player and wait for inspiration. […]