The impulse to write is natural to many people, yet the demands of many public forms of writing can be inhibiting or even crushing. Writing a journal, on the other hand, opens up possibilities. Your journal is one place you can write […]
Dear Writer, Let me start by telling you are not the only one. Every writer, at the start of their journey, thinks their writing is good enough. Some like me will suffer from the malady all their lives. Most of us, except […]
I wish someone had told me, or better still, I had figured it out myself at the beginning of my writing journey. It took me twenty years of painful, frustrating, trial-and-error learning to figure out that I only needed to concentrate on […]
It is almost midday, and I am sitting in the bed, notebook in hand, staring out of the window. My heart is filled with gloom. I have an article to write but nothing comes out. I have become dependent on pouring out […]
Each year, panic starts around this time of the year – only two months for the year to end. It is even more evident if you keep a daily diary and pages start thining on the right-hand side. Still, a lot can […]
When I was new to writing I had a question that puzzles every newbie writer. Write about what? Anne Lamott got asked this question a lot, and her advice to her students was – anything, just write about anything. But her students […]