Happy New Year! I hope you had a fantastic holiday that included some rest and relaxation and lots of family time and reading and/or writing. I’ve spent the better part of my morning reading excellent posts from some of my favourite bloggers about New Year’s Resolutions, sipping coffee, and pondering my own resolutions for 2012. [...]
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Pictures That Inspire Writing: The NaNoWriMo Edition
Since I’m knee-deep in NaNo, I thought I’d share a few pictures that have been inspiring my writing. I posted about how we writers can use photographs to inspire our writing a few months ago, and learned that looking at pictures (or photos) was something that many other writers did to inspire themselves to write. [...]
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Which Books Inspire You to Write?
A few months ago, I read The Birth House by Ami McKay. I’d heard about this book for years, but it took some time to make its way into my “to-read” pile. Once I picked it up, there was no putting it down! For those of you who haven’t read The Birth House, here’s the synopsis [...]
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What Gray the Duck Taught me About Writing
My parents live on a lake in Eastern Canada. Each morning at 7 am, my Mom heads down to shore to greet her duck friends. The ducks are always there waiting for her. At first there were only two or three, but now she greets up to ten ducks on some mornings. No matter how [...]
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Using Photos to Inspire Your Writing
“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away” – Eudora Welty Lately I’ve been trying a new (well, new to me) trick to get myself writing: photos. I got this idea from a creative writing textbook (Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing), but a quick Google search has shown me that it’s a very popular writing [...]
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Do You Write Morning Pages?
You may already be familiar with Morning Pages, one of the writing tools prescribed by Julia Cameron in her now famous book, The Artist’s Way. For those who haven’t heard of them, Morning Pages are simply: ”…three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream of consciousness” (from Julia Cameron’s ‘Basic Tools’ found here). You write these three pages (you guessed it) [...]
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