100 Day Creative Challenge Day 55: One Bite At A Time National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an example of ‘one bite at a time’ writing. On November 1, participants begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 54: Kill Your Darlings William Faulkner once said, “In writing, you must kill your darlings.” Kill your darlings refers to parts of our manuscript (or painting or song lyric or music score) that we have…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 53: Process Ten years ago I decided to write a book — so I did. I believed that my years of reading voraciously, studying literature and teaching writing qualified me. I wish I’d stayed as…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 52: You Are Talented Sometimes I think we believe that to be talented means to be on TV or on stage or in print. Success is not measured purely on public profile. Neither is talent.…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 51: The Right to Write Quite a few years ago I taught a transition to study course for adults. Most of the students were people who left school at 15 years of age to work. They…
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 50: Just Do It! Anne Lamont famously wrote a chapter entitled *SFD’s in her book on writing, Bird by Bird. Lamont writes: The first draft is a child’s draft, where you let it all pour out and then…