By Milli Thornton In a post earlier this month, Writing for the End of the World, I decided to use talk of 2012 being the end of the world as a way to explore what I would do if this really was the last year of my life. I said: All I know is that…
Category Archives: inspiration/motivation
Care and Feeding of My Muse
By Milli Thornton. Photos Copyright © Brian Williams and Milli Thornton SO MUCH OF the writing advice out there is about actual writing. I think it’s too easy to forget that what we do with the rest of our lives counts toward how we feel about our writing. This is already obvious to some people…
j’s Journey: In search of the muse
By Judy Clement Wall I’m a huge fan of bentlily. If you haven’t visited her site, you should. Her real name is Samantha. She’s a writer and new mom who, instead of making resolutions for 2011, committed to writing a poem every day. Here’s what she wrote about her decision: I pledged to write one…
Should You Write When You’re Tired?
By Milli Thornton I MET A writer on Twitter the other day who writes for a living. He expressed unhappiness with his own writing, so I asked what the block was. He said, “It’s exhausting to write fiction after a long day of cranking copy.” Sometimes the only thing to do is rest. Or read….
How do you get yourself out of a funk so you can write?
By Milli Thornton AS OFTEN AS possible, I try to set aside Wednesdays for my own writing. I don’t make appointments, I don’t visit other people’s blogs and I don’t tweet. I don’t work on my To-Do list or run errands. Usually, Brian will cook dinner that day so I can roll with whatever momentum…
Thrilling First Results of the “Travel Writer Crash Course”
THE FIRST WRITER who read the Travel Writer Crash Course here on the Fear of Writing blog (which takes about 10 minutes to read) did not think she was qualified to participate in the program—but she took the risk of applying and has had a wonderful experience so far. Here is the story behind the…
Travel Writer Crash Course
By Milli Thornton A few summers ago I signed up for a travel writer’s correspondence course. I read the first 67 pages of a seven-month course—and was so fired up I couldn’t sit there any longer reading lessons! I went straight to the computer and started a travel blog, dubbed Milliver’s Travels. Now, there’s no…
Meeting the Muse
By guest blogger Joan Lambert Bailey This piece first appeared on Joan’s blog, Popcorn Homestead, and is reprinted here with permission. Written while she was participating in the 2011 Blogathon. Today’s theme for the Blogathon (five places I like to write) is one I’m really struggling with as it touches on a rather sensitive topic…
Inspiring A Writer Manqué from Brockton
(Manqué: short of or frustrated in the fulfillment of one’s aspirations or talents—used postpositively; i.e., a poet manqué) Guest post by JW Rogers Dinner was winding down and I’d just gotten into an unlikely conversation. A man I didn’t know had been sitting across from me all night and I’d written him off because of…
Cheap Therapy
By Milli Thornton Sometimes, even when I’m completely eager to work on my current story, I have fear of starting a new writing session. There’s that fear I won’t know where to go next with my story. Or only slightly less intimidating (if I have an outline to work with), that I won’t know how…
