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How to Find the Writer Within, Your Creative Self

Ellen Buikema — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:35:00 +0000

Find and use your creative voice—the special spin you put on everything you do. Here are some questions to help you get started.

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12 Lessons Learned From Writing Short

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:00:19 +0000

by John Peragine In the last year, short story competitions have helped focus my writing. I read many short stories in elementary school and always enjoyed them, but I believed they were some condensed form of a larger work. I never thought of short-form writing as something special on its own. Fast forward to adulthood […]

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Protect Your Creative Life through Ghostbusting

Guest Blogger — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:12:57 +0000

Writing veteran, Kathryn Craft, shares six ghosts that can block your creativity, and how to ghost-bust them.

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Inviting Creativity Through Meditation

Guest Blogger — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:02:06 +0000

Christina Delay How many of you meditate? It’s a practice we’ve started building into our family evenings each night, and something I hope to one day be good at. Meditation is good for managing anxiety, depression, stress. It’s also good for learning to be open to new ideas and people who may be threatening to […]

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Getting Unstuck and Avoiding Writer's Block

Guest Blogger — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:00:11 +0000

Super-editor, Tiffany Yates-Martin shares strategies for getting "un-stuck" when your writing stalls.

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Writing When Life Is More Trick Than Treat

Guest Blogger — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:01:41 +0000

by Christina Delay How do we keep moving forward when life decides to TP our plans? In other words, how do we keep going when we hit creative burnout? In a season that my daughter likes to call “candy-tastic,” it may feel like we must throw candy around like everything’s peachy, but inside we’re dealing […]

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A Writer’s Perspective on Point of View

Guest Blogger — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:01:17 +0000

Kimberly Brock Taking a fresh look at things I am consumed by the idea of perspective. At the moment, I’m witnessing the effects of a visual processing disorder in one of my children, which means that for him, nothing is as it seems. I admit that as a parent, I’m busy doing everything I can […]

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How to Preserve Your Creative Self In Times of Trouble

Guest Blogger — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:01:57 +0000

Kate Moretti This is not going to be a political post. But I am going to talk about politics. Sort of. As writers, we’re sensitive souls. We observe the world around us, and as Kimberly Brock called us in a beautiful post earlier this week, we’re lightning collectors. I loved this analogy; it’s so […]

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Skimming: Never a Good Thing

Fae Rowen — Wed, 07 May 2014 11:00:51 +0000

by Fae Rowen Skimming is defined as a crime. Well, it is. If you skim money from your job, you’re going to jail. Or worse depending on whom you work for. Skimming is also defined as removing floating matter from a liquid. Can you say pond scum? The third definition says, “To pass lightly and […]

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Creativity -- Opening the Door of the Treasure House

Guest Blogger — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:00:43 +0000

A Quick News Flash! Laura Drake is our local Query Queen. She's shared the knowledge gained from her 15 year stint in the submission wars in several blogs here over the years. She wanted to let you know that she's teaching a month-long, online class for Margie Lawson's Writer's Academy in March, Submissions that Sell! […]

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