W riting projects have come to a screeching halt for some academics, overwhelmed in this difficult year by the unfamiliar and heavy demands of remote teaching. People are tired, afraid, and ...
I’ve written three books, and yet writing has never come easily. I agonize over the chasm between what is in my mind and what comes through my fingers. It makes me nervous and doubtful and neurotic ...
We are all moving through life at warp speed, treating our daily schedules like an endless race to the finish line. It is ...
A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to write will die without putting a word on paper,” E.B. White said in a Paris Review interview. He chose to write in his living room, ...
Have you ever wondered what the daily life of a writer looks like? What time they wake up and what they eat for breakfast? How many words per day they write, if any? How they get sudden bursts of ...
Most of the time, when we sit down to write, we write with the expectation that we’ll eventually use some or most of the words that we produce. And whether we’re writing an email, a business proposal, ...
Mel Burke is a culture writer who recently quit her full-time job to become a novelist. To find a routine that works for her, she tried the schedules of famous writers like Maya Angelou. She liked ...
When you’re a startup founder or an entrepreneur, you work under so much pressure and have so many different issues to deal with, the thought of adding an extra activity to your plate can be daunting.