Once you’ve established or re-established some momentum with your writing practice, it’s best to do everything you can to stay on track and keep building on your forward motion. In a sense, you’re working to develop a writing habit so that writing naturally becomes an integral part of your daily [...]
Archive for May, 2009
On Becoming A Writer — Step Three: Keep Your Momentum Going
Posted in Writing as a Practice, tagged Creative Writing, Writing on May 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On Becoming a Writer — Step Two: Getting Up On A Plane
Posted in Writing as a Practice, tagged Creative Writing, Writing on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who’s been around powerboats knows that if you really want to get anywhere, you have to get your boat “up on a plane” and that to do so takes an initial expenditure of extra power and acceleration. When a boat begins forward motion through water, the hull is essentially plowing the [...]
On Becoming a Writer — Step One: Entering the Stream
Posted in Writing as a Practice, tagged Books, Creative Writing, Writing, Writing Retreats on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To become a writer, to be a writer, is deceptively simple: All you have to do is write. As soon as you begin writing, you are a writer. Plain and simple. Whenever I facilitate writing retreats and workshops, we always start with a short free-writing period. The purpose of [...]
