Pencil Box for the Soul
“Some things cross my path…I don’t think I can force ideas. I usually see something and it causes my brain to spin.” -Claudine McCormack Jalajas Claudine McCormack Jalajas is an expert writer in the field of technical writing and learning, and the author of the contemporary weaving book Beaded Bracelets. For eighteen years she
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
Writing comes first.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
Well, sometimes when people tell you something is bad, it is because it is. And you have to be more interested in fixing the thing than in nursing your own vanity.
The Recovering Creative
Just like I can’t control what other people do, sometimes I can’t control which direction my writing is headed. I feel so powerless, no—impotent. Though I shouldn’t. Because I have no business trying to control. Just like living beings, my words have their own footprints and fingerprints. If I respect that then my words, once
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
What I cherish most about writing: it fills the solitude.
Pencil Box for the Soul, The Recovering Creative
I await ideas and emotions and the words that hold them. I follow my instincts.
Pencil Box for the Soul
What is your footprint? Your fingerprint? Every bit of what you write includes some aspect about you. Writing can be a discovery process for you, or a statement about you. Recognize the beauty in that, that every bit of what you write is inherently valuable for simply those reasons. Now, understand that some fingerprints
The Recovering Creative
You can write about anything; a former job or a current one; a nemesis or archangel; the truth about being a trust fund baby, or growing up on the streets. The key is to find the heart of your subject–and this takes practice. Repeated practice. One yoga teacher I knew several years ago reminded students
David L. Ulin, Jennifer Nelson, and Kayt Sukel respond. ◊ Meredith: Does rejection have a purpose, as far as creativity is concerned? DAVID L. ULIN: Yes, rejection definitely has a purpose. Sometimes, that purpose is to tell you to work harder. Sometimes, it is to piss you off. Just before I started “The Lost Art
There is no one right way to write. This was my hypothesis when I began The Writer’s [Inner] Journey. The blog has gone on to be name as a top site for writers by scores of websites, and was a finalist for a Bloggie, among other honors. One of the things I love about the
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
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I approach creative panic attacks the same way I cope with getting the flu: I surrender, coddle myself and let it run its course.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
I take feeling fear as a good sign.