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Posted in Creativity, Writing on Jul 8th, 2008
Anne Lamott’s book, Bird by Bird, has a great chapter called Shitty First Drafts that’s all about getting over those internal voices that tell writers that what we’re writing sucks. The essay is all about accepting those voices, realizing that they’re going to be there for as long as you’re doing something creative, and then [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 2nd, 2008
Writing that title made me feel like I was penning the sequel to The Secret or something. Like I was going to write something akin to “Just follow this simple formula and all your writing block problems will be forever solved!”
Which isn’t what I’m saying but I am saying that it’ll definitely help you the [...]
Posted in Writing on Nov 22nd, 2007
So I wrote about my “perpetual discovery” and eventual incorporation of rewriting as an important step in my writing process.
It’s fun to look at how other writers have completely transformed their words as they rewrite. Check out this 2007 interview from The Paris Review with the late Norman Mailer. A few pages into it there [...]
As I’ve stated before, my reasons for starting this blog were to a) get published and b) get a job in advertising. Yesterday I was on the bus reading and an idea hit me for a blog post: rewriting is very important, I jotted down in my Moleskine (for more on the importance of jotting [...]
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