Illustration – Copyright Icy Sedgwick I’m a big fan of Writer’s Digest, and I got an email yesterday summing up their latest posts. This one in particular caught my eye – a 12 day plan of simple writing exercises! A kind of “Twelve Days of Christmas” for writers, if you will. I’ll post them in […]
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Track Your Writing Progress
Last week, I posted an entry about making your own motivation to write. I feel like I possibly left things hanging, as I missed out two of the Internet-based tools for helping you to write, for both keeping you motivated and keeping track of your progress. How remiss of me! So here I am, on […]
New Writing Schedule
I read this post on the Write Anything blog (which you should ALL be reading!) by the very lovely Jodi Cleghorn, and it really got me thinking about my writing schedule. I’ve never really had one, aside from trying to write the next installment of my serial on Wednesdays, so I can post it on […]
Creativity game
There seem to be posts on creativity all over the blogosphere at the moment, two of the best being Melissa Donovan’s post over at Writing Forward and Mary Jaksch’s post at Write to Done. I remember one person saying that you couldn’t describe yourself as ‘creative’ unless you did anything deemed to be such, since […]
Why Photography and Writing are natural bedfellows
You hopefully won’t be surprised to learn that as well as writing, I like to indulge my creativity with a spot of photography. I took the photo on the left last night, from a spot outside County Hall (this was before I got moved by security since, for some odd reason, you’re not allowed to […]
Catching the muse
Writing. It’s a funny old game, isn’t it? You want to write, you really do, but you find yourself making all sorts of daft excuses not to. For example, I’ve recently taken up knitting and I find myself wanting to relax in front of the TV, needles clacking away as my current project slowly grows, […]
