Photo by Joan You on Unsplash “Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where you are going. Alice: I...

Of course! It’s true. There are many different types of writers… There are the poets, the artists who can paint words across your eyes...

When you find yourself on a teacher’s reading list!  “Ian Ross Singleton is a writer, translator, and professor of Writing at Baruch...

Quitting is easy. Coming back is chaos. You are David. Your unfinished work is a monolith. Goliaths don’t even compare. In fact, Goliaths...

Dear Google, Are writing contests a good idea? Search. or Writing contests. Search. or Writing contests that pay. Search. or Writing...

To MFA or not to MFA. That has occupied my mind since learning of the MFA as a young writer and undergrad. To me, the MFA had always held...

No one loves your writing more than you do. You do not hate your writing, or even better, you are not agnostic towards your writing....

If you do not read you have no business writing. Josef Miyasato A Parable Once there was a girl who loved to talk or blog. She could talk...

You are a writer. You are remarkably insightful. Sometimes you are, even, brilliant. You can write better prose than anyone. You are a...

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”– Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft...

Words are not words. They are sound. Sound is not sound. It is meaning. Meaning is not meaning. It is idea. Ideas are not ideas. They are...

No one wants to read your stuff. Not even your mom. You are too politically incorrect. You can’t write. Who do you even read? “I think...

Oh, rejection. It’s a shriveled orange. It’s the spider inside the banana. It’s a human’s lot and a writer’s eighty-acre wood. And if...

What else can you be doing? Everything. Everything will always want to come first. Everything will seduce you. Everything will tell you...

“Who Are You To Write This Book?” – The Evil Dr. Who-M You are writing this book because you want to. You are writing this book because...

What do you have to say? Why do you have to say it? This can be daunting, maybe not for all but for most. For as long as there have been...

If you are not in this for the long haul then you will break before you get there. You might break before anyway. Can you write through...

Faith is the first principle of writing. The page is blank. Can you fill it up? Can you fill it up with something worthy of space and...

Faith. This is the first principle of writing. The page is blank. Can you fill it up? Can you fill it up with something worthy of space...