Category Archives: Writing
Writers Group Virginity.
This coming Monday evening, (April 23), I will be attending a writers group for the very first time. To some of my writing colleagues I am sure reading that would be akin to reading a skydiving blog written by one who has never been able to get on an airplane. But it’s true. Despite being …
Fruition Block: Forget “Should”.
“Writer’s block” comes about when a writer believes they can’t think of anything to write. They have nothing to say, and don’t know how to go about finding something to say. I don’t believe in it, because I feel that by acknowledging it, I give it power. So I just keep writing something, anything, when I have …
A Reminder for Introverted Writers
I’m calling this a “reminder” instead of “advice” because most introverts already know about what I’m going to address here. But the everyday realities of being introverted can at times cloud that realization, and make us reluctant to accept it. This post serves just as much as a reminder to myself as to anyone else. …
Fuel for Writing: Stealing the Hat.
Most writers have heard the old formula when it comes to fiction. Put your character up a tree, throw a bunch of rocks at him, and then get him out of the tree. How succinct and clever. And void of creativity. All right, I know I am not being totally fair. The message behind this metaphor is …
How Sprout Gets It Right, and How Writers Can Too.
I don’t watch Sprout much. (Surprise.) Until this weekend it was just something I would pass through while channel surfing, stopping on it for a minute or two on occasion due to the oddness of the visual. Yet my sister and her daughter (my niece, of course) spent this weekend here. My niece is nine months old …
Ty Unglebower 