Or, how I joined the 5 a.m. Writers’ Club and stuck with it. Since mid-April 2021, I’ve been waking up earlier than usual to write. …
Waking Up Early to Write
Writing = Love
Non-writing activities to help your story when you’re struggling to write
Note: This post is geared toward novelists, but there’s advice in here that can be applicable for other types of writers, too! Writing is hard. …
Making Time to Write with a Full-Time Job
Writing, as many writers will agree, is a lot like breathing. I can’t imagine a life where I’m not writing regularly. Yet like many writers, …
Recovering from the Dissertation and Learning to Like Research Again
After I defended my dissertation and received my PhD, I made a promise to myself: I was going to take a break from history. A …
What NaNoWriMo Taught Me About Writing
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which takes place every November, might seem like a crazy endeavor: write 50,000 words–a short rough draft of a novel–in …
A Healthy Sick Day? Or, How A Cold Helped Me Sort Out My Priorities
Recently I came across this unpublished piece that I wrote several years ago, while I was still living the faster-paced city life, and wanted to …
Discovering Favorite Places in a New City
For me, it’s always about the cafés when I travel someplace new or am looking for a new haunt near home. Parks, bookstores, maybe a …
A Year Reading Hemingway
Okay, Here goes. This is to follow up on my post from last week, where I wrote, in parentheses, “And I want to read all …
New Year, New & Old Writing
I’ve always been a writer. I was that kid who wrote my own versions of stories after reading the classics, who folded and stapled papers …