Posts Tagged ‘writer’

The Road to Done is Paved with Good Distractions

I’m going to work on my fiction.
That sentence summarizes one of my major writing-related goals this year. The goals, if you want to get into details, are to publish (not just write) 3 short stories and participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo, or at least just spend a month or two writing the first draft of [...]

Exercises in Failure: Allow yourself to create crap

We’re all afraid of failing. We dread critics, seek the praise of our peers, and crave spotless records. We think that to be happy, productive citizens, we have to avoid failure as much as possible.
Who can blame us? In school we were taught to be ashamed if the teacher marks a giant red “X” on [...]