First of all, give yourself a break. This isn’t a planned writer’s retreat, this is a stretched-out crisis full of anxiety-provoking issues. If you are struggling with your creativity because…
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Goal setting By the end of March I will finish my second draft of my novel. Flipping through my notebooks I find goals like these plastered everywhere. Goals are not…
I’m reading Secret Societies: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds to help me develop my own evil organization for my story. I recommend this book-…
(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…
10 Recommended Books to Help Your Creativity The Artist’s Way By Julia Cameron. A classic, talking about coaxing out the battered, gun-shy artist from within, using artist dates, morning pages…
Starting a Creativity Support Group In Felicia Day’s memoir, “You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Mostly)” she talks about joining a creativity support group. She kept coming to the meetings with…
Write Right Here I’m working on revising a rough draft of a novel. I have a skeleton there, but there is a long, hard way to go. I look at…
In honor of poetry month, create a “found” poem by stacking books. This is a great and easy display for a library, and a mind-stretching exercise for writers and other…
Writing Progress I’ve set aside my Librarian Craft project to focus on my second draft of a fantasy novel called “Other People’s Magic”. It was a tangled mess, as I…
Get Input on Your Art “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” – Stephen King If you are creating for the joy of making things, then you don’t need this…
