by BWW Support | May 26, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
For years, I longed for a daily practice while taking comfort in the authors who claimed not to have one. Some months I wrote morning pages every day. Some months I didn’t. Some stretches I labored at my novel, meeting friends in cafes to force myself to stay at the...
by BWW Support | May 19, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Writers get courage from other writers, which is to say, from books and stories. Seek out the ones that astonish you, that make you say, “You can do that?” Seek out the ones that seep into you and charge you with the will to take risks. Writer friends and writing...
by BWW Support | May 12, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Begin badly, begin with questions (write them down), begin with a line that pops into your head or a few words you force from your pen. Begin with a character whose only partly visible to you, with eavesdropping in a cafe or on your own memories or imagination. Begin...
by BWW Support | May 5, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
I like starting with action. We writers are often excellent at observation. A lot may be going on in the depths below the surface, and there’s certainly something to be said for that, but it traps us in two ways. First, we can be inclined to shy away from action in...
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