What’s Your Blog to You?
A way to share your passion with the world? A log of your travels or of your journey through the world of fashion? A vehicle for personal change? A place of comfort you can always come to? A marketing...
View ArticleOn Making Time When We Need It (Fast Time Versus Slow Time)
Remember the last time you worked on something you didn’t want to work on or studied something you didn’t enjoy studying? Or when you were at the doctor, waiting in a long queue for your turn? Didn’t...
View Article11 Inspiring Writing Quotes for Writers of All Persuasions
Some writing quotes sound like common wisdom--but others sparkle and inspire. In this post, I want to share with you some of my favorite all time writing quotes--words of wisdom that can improve our...
View ArticleWriting Like Breathing or Eating or Walking
If you could master any writing style, how would you want to write? Sparsely and vigorously, like Hemingway? Magically and enchantingly like Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Flamboyantly like Shakespeare?...
View ArticleWriting As a Way to Relax
When we are young, we are taught to write because writing is a useful skill to have in life. As we grow up, we continue to write because we have to—think of school or university. After we’re done with...
View ArticleWriting As a Way to Remember
Memories are some of our most precious possessions. But as the years march by, they fade. Writing can help us preserve memories. Returning to our journals, notebooks, poems, or posts years later can...
View Article9 Things You Can Do on a Rainy Day at Home
Something about the pattering of the rain on the rooftop, the dripping of the raindrops on the darkening windowpane, and the warm dryness inside that makes me not mind rainy weather at all. Rainy days...
View ArticleIn Praise of the Backspace Key
On our keyboards it stays aloof from other letters. We never begin a sentence with it, and unlike the Spacebar or Enter, we don’t press it eagerly as we flow with our thoughts. On the contrary, before...
View Article7 Things That Make Us Worse Writers
Some habits are worse for writers than others. Here's what I mean... 1. Sitting at a desk for too long Yes, we have to get the words down, but we can do a lot of writing while we’re away from our...
View ArticleHow to Make Writing a Daily Habit
Do you want to write but find it hard to sit down and do it? Writing is something worth making time for. As for inspiration, well, you don’t have to wait for it. Consider making writing a daily habit,...
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