I encourage you to keep writing, for your writing may actually be a remedy for the sorrow, fear, confusion, empty-headedness, and aching hearts — yours and others’.… Continue Reading
Category Archives: For the Love of Writing
Writerly Reassurance From a Few Who Have Been There
Stuck in a writing rut? Heed these words of wisdom from famous authors.… Continue Reading
In Praise of Procrastination
The funny thing is, even during this busy (and productive!) avoidance stage, the writing process is often in motion, like an app working in the background of a smartphone.… Continue Reading
Show, Don’t Tell: Writing 101 for Fiction and Memoir
What “Show, Don’t Tell” really means: how to write fiction or memoir that keeps your reader engaged.… Continue Reading
Lessons We’re Glad We Learned
LAEWG members reflect on the source of some of the influences and insight that made a lasting impression on their professional lives.… Continue Reading
November Is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
Thousands of writers will sit down at their computers with the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel in the span of a single month.… Continue Reading
“Real” Books and Why We Love Them
A recent ad for the Kindle Paperwhite, which allows reading even in bright sunlight, touts that the device will hold up to 1,100 books. That sounds like a lot, but for serious readers, a library of 1,100 books is not so large. Book lovers find it really easy to accumulate books—usually they find it hard…… Continue Reading
Writer’s High
My drug of choice in college was Vitamin B-1. An allegedly healthy version of speed, it not only kept me up all night so I could meet an English Lit deadline—it kept me way up: enthused, imaginative, eloquent, ultra-brilliant. Or so I thought. One night, through my B-1 eyes, my Daniel Defoe essay became downright…… Continue Reading
Quieting Your Inner Critic
Is your inner critic keeping you from writing? Here’s how to calm the negative voices so you can stop procrastinating and get to work!… Continue Reading
On Writing and Revelation
Writing is lonely, difficult work, and on top of that, anyone who wants to master the craft of writing fiction has to self-reveal. This surprises people. Many novelists believe that they need only lose themselves in a character, but the truth is that a writer of fiction needs to dig deep in order to feel…… Continue Reading