(art by Luke Carvill) Fighting Despair When You’re Not Selling or Getting Acceptances The next person who tries to comfort me by telling me Van Gogh only sold one picture…
Tag: <span>writers block</span>
Boosting Creativity Sometimes it’s good to get out of the house. Julia Cameron, in her famous book on creativity, The Artist’s Way, suggests taking an “artist’s date”. Explore a museum.…
The “never finish, never lose” trap Finishing is as scary as freefall. Is the parachute going to open? Do you in fact have a parachute? Are you jumping from a…
I started this blog in April 2011. I have done about 53 posts. This week I don’t feel like posting anything. I feel like no-one is reading these, that it’s…
Finding Inspiration There are times when staring at a blank page will get you nowhere. Some times you have to walk around and think, some times you have to put…
Writing Hurdles “For writers, a block is not a block is not a block. Blocks come in all shapes and sizes.” – Rachel Ballon. I’m reading the “Writer’s Portable Therapist”…
National Novel Writing Month, November, is here. For those not in the know, it’s a chance to shed all reservations about writing and just write with literary abandon, with the…
Right now, nothing I write is any good. In fact, it’s horrible. Worse than drivel. It is so hard to fight against the inner critic. While it is destructive, it’s…
