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Get Yourself Ready for Nano 2022

#amwriting, #becomingunstuck, #nanowrimo, A M Carley, Anne Lamott, blog, Emily X.R. Pan, Lemony Snicket, making the time, Nano Prep, Roxane Gay, shitty first draft, Thanksgiving, writing

Nano’s annual energy surge is available to writers of many stripes. You don’t have to be starting a novel (and you don’t even need to be a novelist) ...
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Support Your Creativity with Lists

blog, creativity tools, done lists, dopamine squirts, FLOAT, list items, making lists, Rick Hanson, Ron Siegel, stretch goals, to-do lists

There is satisfaction in finishing a list item, and it’s too easy to hurry past that moment without enjoying it and taking it in. It’s worthwhile to pause ...
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New Habits for Old People

#amwriting, Aging and creativity, blog, daily qi, habit change, happiness, lifetime qi, traditional chinese medicine

Changing habits is hard because of our default neurology. Change can happen, though, and more easily if we’re changing in the direction of a better life ...
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The Critique Group: A Cure for Writerly Isolation

#amwriting, #becomingunstuck, A M Carley, BACCA Literary, blog, community of writers, constructive criticism, critique, isloation, Lisa Cooper Ellison, Timeless Clan, writer group, writing community, writing group

A proven antidote to that creative isolation is a well-functioning writer group. Its sustaining, regular rhythms – drafting and sharing your pages, then reading and critiquing your group members’ pages, then gathering together and scheduling the next month’s due date and meeting – become essential and welcome elements of everyday life ...
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Guest Post: Writing for Children • Rules of the Road

It is absolutely necessary to write for your ideal reader. Emotionally, how would they feel in your main character’s situation? What’s the worldview of a three-year-old? If your main character is a mouse, how would the physical world look to them? And so on ...
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