Are Daily Word Counts Harmful to Your Writing?
Daily word counts can help, but can also hinder writers. Sometimes, the best goal is to follow what you need to be creative on a given day.
Daily word counts can help, but can also hinder writers. Sometimes, the best goal is to follow what you need to be creative on a given day.
Writing and Triathlon have a lot in common- from tenacity and fighting through the challenges, we all keep getting to that starting line and trying again.
Write’s can experience burnout. This article offers tips for helping identify and overcome burnout.
As writers, we need connections on social media to find critique partners and places to share writing knowledge. But sometimes those connections are not helping advance our creative needs. We’ve all been there- a social media group whose focus is a genre or writing topic of interest. But the posts content is for members only….
Somewhere between mile 5 and 6 on my run this week, when my headphones switched from the flute trills of McCarney and Wing’s Live and Let Die to the raucous sound of Immigrant Song (Zeppelin), I was hit with both a rush of endorphins and a revelation about writing. Or maybe it was the beginnings…
A little over a week ago, I found myself smack in the middle of a long-distance triathlon, winding my way up steep hills in California, begging my bike to find just one…more…lower gear that would make the hill climb so much easier on my tired legs. When cyclists passed by, I made a mental note…
I noticed a trend in my recent adventures between blogging, the twitter-sphere, and Facebook. It seemed that a high proportion of posts were either self-deprecating or down-right self-negating. Then I noticed another trend. My time if often split between my writing buddies and my Tri-geek friends. I would feel much more positive after immersing myself in…
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