writer's block | writer's block
Apr.22.2011
In my last post, I explained that a speaker I heard at my local California Writer’s Club branch mentioned a variety or reasons why writers get "blocked." And I said blogging offered a solution to the overwhelm that can cause some writers to feel unable to write. Why? Because blog posts...
|
Apr.22.2011
Last night at my local California Writer's Club branch we had a speaker who addressed the issue of writer's block and how to move through it. A lot of writers, even famous ones, suffer from this malady.
As I listened to him speak about the problem and his remedies, it struck me that blogging...
|
Apr.10.2011
Conquering Writer’s BlockHello, and welcome once again to The Story Woman blog where the Mother Memoir reigns supreme. What is the one story you will write to convey the essence of your mother’s character and spirit in the way you want her remembered? Let’s just say you have decided on the event or...
|
Mar.24.2011
All writers have to have some psychological trick to use when the going gets rough or when you just don't know how to confront the blank screen or page. For some, it can be a mood-altering substance like alcohol or opium, but that's dangerous and, from what I've seen from writers' bios, works...
|
Mar.15.2011
A writer who was having too many family distractions asked me, "Have you ever just had to get away somewhere to write?"
Yes, I would say my best writing happens when I take some time off and go on a brief writing sabbatical. Anywhere from a three-day weekend to five days, whatever time I...
|
Mar.03.2011
For the most part, I have about an average life as far as big events go: births, deaths, marraiges, divorces (someone else's this time, thank you very much) and so on, but for the last eighteen months or so, the hit's just kept on coming. Like a boxer who hasn't been tagged on the chin, but has...
|
Feb.27.2011
When my husband came home on Christmas Eve eve, he found me sitting on the couch with my laptop. I was staring blankly at the screen, my contacts long since discarded, my glasses and cat lady sweater in place; my hair a rat’s nest stabbed with a pen. I seemed to think the harder I stared at the...
|
Feb.27.2011
A few weeks ago I read an article about 10 gadgets every writer needs. Remaining true to my and my husband’s ancestors (mine were "Black Bumper" Mennonite, his Old Order Amish), I am going to flout those fandangled thingamabobs and write about 10 non-electrical gadgets every writer doesn’...
|
Feb.25.2011
I drove along the ridge top through the ink-black forest and then down the winding road home. Cold rain pelted everything and dragged moss from the trees to the road where it lay in limp clumps in the black night. Everything in the world seemed wet, and it was as if all light had seeped into the...
|
Feb.14.2011
Ego: Not writing lately?
Id: Can't get into it since I fell.
Ego: Still recovering?
Id: Honestly, it's quite hard to tell.
Ego: Is it writer's block?
Id: Nope, lots to say - maybe a quell.
Ego: A little moody?
Id: Could be? Who knows?! What the--? Hell's bells!...
|