How Not To Write

Before the winter sets in, you need to get away from the keyboard. Go outside and feel the last few embers of sunlight on your face. Being outside is a great way to replenish the writing well.
Below are a few thoughts that come from an afternoon’s raking. I’m not sure there’s a [...]

Mark is chillin’ this morning with a cup o’ joe and the latest reviews of literary fiction and wondering a bit if things aren’t just too cozy.
The Elegant Variation: MONDAY MORNING COFFEE
While we spend our time worrying about nasty reviews, over in the UK they’re wondering if things haven’t gotten too polite.
“There is something [...]

Where do you find your focus to write each day? Is it from the fear of failure (or success), or is it from the certainty that you are on the path?
David Seah : Getting Focused 03: Certainty and Survival
There are two kinds of focus:
Focus that Comes from Certainty — When you are certain [...]

I love the Zen posts about writing that I come across on my rambles. The remind me of Beckett at times. The nothingness of so much.
Spurious: Eternity
There should be a writing of non-writing. Someday it will come. A brief writing, without grammar, a writing of words alone. Words without supporting grammar. Lost. [...]

True success in art is about revision. No master paints without the aide of a sketch and the secret there is not a single sketch but a thousand. Hour upon hour of retracing the same eye, the same throat, the same shaft of light. Again and again. It works that way, [...]