The Stupendous Assets of Slow Writing
With slow writing, you rouse that inner editor, you even get him a cup of coffee, because now it’s his turn to go carefully over each word, sentence, paragraph, and chapter.
The Next Step for Your Writing: Let Somebody Read It
What are you going to do next with that story you finished last week, the essay you finally completed yesterday, the poem that you’ve been working on for years, or the novel that languishes in your laptop? You’ve done the work … or at least all you...
Let’s Talk about Revision
Most writers know that writing is about 10 percent drafting and 90 percent revision. In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott practically institutionalized revision in her chapter “Sh*tty First Drafts.” She writes, “The first draft is the child’s draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going …
Trouble in Blogville
After believing that my writing life would be perfect once I finally had my own blog, imagine my dismay when I have continued to have compositional problems over the last couple of months. Actually, this blog itself has caused me a good amount of grief. I don’t...
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