How old do you have to be to write? I recommend that you write, right now. You are the age you are. It’s too late to start young. And it’s too early … well, you get the idea. Here’s a quote I came across yesterday: “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. […]
In my quest to blog every day in November, I thought I should add a reminder of why we write. I’ve loaned out my copy of Louise DeSalvo’s Writing as a Way of Healing, but here’s Martha Alderson on the same topic: “My most important insight is this: All of us face antagonists and hurdles, […]
A long time ago, when I still worried about what career I should have, a mentor told me that I should hang out with the type of people I wanted to become. I remember imagining a group of bankers and me dressed up and pretending to be a banker, wandering amidst them. No, I didn’t […]
National Novel Writing Month is so popular among a certain set of writers that it seems almost silly to chime in on it. To learn more, I suggest you visit their official website: http://nanowrimo.org/. (Find the “about” tab for the overview.) I’ll share my take with you here. Nanowrimo crossed my radar for the first time […]