When we’re too close, when we are at the heart of the action, if we are writing about something that has just happened, we often miss the…… Read more “Writers are observers”

I have often said that writing is my heroine, my crack cocaine. I can’t live without it. I don’t know if it is a violent obsession, but…… Read more “Writing is an obsession”

Writing takes time. When we distract ourselves by busying ourselves with all kinds of extraneous activities and duties, we lose that time. We don’t necessarily become better…… Read more “Allow yourself the time you need”

This is a classic, and yet it is still so relevant today. So many of us don’t have the physical space where we can shut ourselves away…… Read more “A Room of One’s Own”

I’d like to think that having your work looked at by an editor or even a critique partner isn’t such a brutal process, but it can be.…… Read more “One way to look at the editing process”