I saw this quite a while back on Shilpa’s blog in response to The Insecure Writer’s Support Group prompt — If you ever stopped writing, what would you replace it with? This is a brilliant question! I thought about what I’d do if I ever stopped writing, especially what I write in my Morning Pages and…
Three-Minute Writing Sprints
In her book Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, Natalie Goldberg, suggests that ‘three-minute writing sprints’ can be considered as training to run a long distance – a book! You start small and build up skill, fluency and distance. Three-Minute Writing Sprints Try writing for three minutes on each of these…
Vulnerability And Writing
As a writer, I am always drawn to questions—the kind that have no simple answers, that stretch and challenge the mind rather than resolve neatly. I struggle to reach satisfying conclusions. Writing makes me realize how many sides there are to every story, and how much there is to learn. And, I understand that my…