8 of the Best Books on Writing – Gift Ideas for the Writer in Your Life
The holidays are around the corner. For creative writers, that might mean stockings stuffed with gel pens and journals. (One year, my aunt gave me a set of “Writer’s Block” pencils, with pithy sayings on each pencil -pieces of advice for what to do when writer’s block hits. One of the pencil’s messages: Try vodka.) […]
Does AI Have a Place in Creativity?
For millennia, humans have balked at the introduction of new technologies – and new ideas – in all spaces. There was an uproar about the first cars, the radio, any new music, the internet, women running marathons, and all kinds of other things for as long as we’ve been recording any of it. The newest […]
On a scale of 1-10, where is your creative energy?
I always find a new year to be a time of tremendous excitement and motivation when it comes to my writing goals and creative projects. But I know not everyone feels that way, and outside circumstances often have a tremendous bearing on the trajectory of our creative lives. That’s why I recently posed this question […]
Use Lists to Power Your Writing
Do you ever use lists to organize your writing, or to stimulate your creativity? (Or, to be totally boring here, to get better organized?) When I was young, I carried around a book with me that was like my writing Bible. It was called Thinking Like a Writer by Lou Willett Stanek. One of the things […]