By Mary Moellenhoff Sometime late September, I got the urge to write again. This was a surprise because I had been struggling, unable to write anything and had essentially given up. The dream had died. I am not sure exactly why, maybe it was just mental exhaustion as I had been through a stressful year….
Tag Archive: fear of writing
Getting It Down
By Judy Clement Wall “Shitty First Drafts” is my favorite chapter in my favorite writing book of all time, Anne Lamott’s bird by bird. The book, for those of you who haven’t read it, is equal parts wisdom and neurosis (like most writers I know), and “Shitty First Drafts” was the chapter that spoke most…
The Big Secret About Fear
THE BIG SECRET about fear that gets under-used is that we writers have the perfect opportunity to use fear to our advantage. Our fear helps us recognize and describe complexities where others would never even look. Combine this with a writer’s natural powers of expression and you have a huge, untapped source of energy for…
Welcome to My New Blog Site
WELCOME! Thank you for taking a moment to glance around my new digs. After having so much fun with WordPress on my new travel blog (Milliver’s Travels), I decided to take the plunge and move Fear of Writing from Blogger over to WordPress. I’m also using the new Headway theme (for those who take an…
Writer’s Block? Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge
By Milli Thornton THREE DAYS BEFORE Christmas, 2003, I was sitting in Wired! coffee house with Theresa and Daniel, two members of the Taos, New Mexico Fertile Material Writing Circle. We were in the throes of what we always do in these writing circles, which is to pick a writing prompt from my book, write…
10 Tips for Using the Fertile Material Writing Prompts
By Milli Thornton HAVE YOU EVER stared at a writing prompt—or a story idea you’ve jotted in a notebook—desperately wondering how to cure your Blank Mind Syndrome and actually write something? Solution: As long as you actually make use of them, the ten tips below are guaranteed to spark you into writing mode. You don’t…
