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The Artist’s Way

Have Fun, Write Happy

03.08.2011

I’ve been seeing a lot of blog mentions on the need to balance writing with life. I couldn’t agree more. I tend to worry when I hear writers only write. And read. And that’s it. One, no one is a writing machine. Two, you burn out. The first thing I thought of was Julia Cameron. [...]

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Writer’s Dirt

12.07.2011

Last night I was reading an interesting take on writer’s block. In an article in The Writer (“Survivor Out of Carolina,” August 2011), Dorothy Allison talks about her “three-year interruption where everything I wrote was dirt.” Like Allison, I always equated block with not being able to write. But she says it’s otherwise: “No, you [...]

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Ready, Set, Write

09.10.2010

I love it when a student discovers something on his own, even if he didn’t know what he discovered at the time. Like a lot of some writers I have been known to obsess, worry, over analyze, fret about how to start a new idea, manuscript, story. I have a bad habit tend to want the story to [...]

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Dating, anyone?

01.05.2010

Serious art is born from serious play. So says Julia Cameron. Why play? Because it refills the well. Because it lets our imagination soar without tying it down with ‘musts’ and ‘shoulds’. And because it’s just fun to let go and be silly. Now, I can think of lots of ways to play. And what [...]

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