Playlists are the secret sauce of both productivity and time-wasting when it comes to most people’s writing process. The right background music can drop you effortlessly into the world of your novel, and before you know it, the words just come flying out. Creating a writing playlist, on the other hand, can be a happy… Continue reading How to curate the perfect writing playlist
Do you ever start something and then kind of forget you were doing it and accidentally abandon it for months? Me too. Welcome back to my writing blog (she said to herself, shaking her head in disappointment). As it happens, I haven’t only been taking an extended break from blogging, but also from writing itself.… Continue reading How to get the most out of writing prompts
The first college class I ever sat down in was English 101. I’d already been writing as a hobby for years, so I don’t think my hormonal, egocentric teenage brain expected to learn much. But one of the first things the professor had us do turned out to be the single most useful writing exercise… Continue reading Freewriting: the best writing exercise I know