by BWW Support | Jun 30, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Part of what brings up resistance to write is that writing asks you to switch to a sensory mode, to track the progress of the world or a scene through sights, smells, tastes, textures and sounds. Collectively, we discuss these as “imagery,” taking the word beyond its...
by BWW Support | Jun 23, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
When something is a habit, you don’t think about it. You don’t have a conversation with yourself about whether or not to do it each day. It’s routine, nearly automatic. The next right thing. Once you left the drama of, “Will I write? When will I write? How much will I...
by BWW Support | Jun 16, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Once you’ve written and rewritten, there will come a point–early or late, depending on your personality, when you must have readers. Early: I love to write and immediately read aloud what I’ve written. I find I have not got nearly any idea what I’ve written...
by BWW Support | Jun 9, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Effort need not only be the rigors of hard focus. Creative effort involves play, exploration and invention. Free writing is a magical way to bypass the controlling, fearful part of most of us that arises in the face of imaginative practice. To free write, get some...
by BWW Support | Jun 2, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Writing is work, and there’s not reason to expect it to be otherwise. Have a growth mindset: think effort, rather than talent. All talent can do is help the effort pay off. Talent can also , I think, be learned: it’s a side-product of effort. Even if you want to give...
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