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Do the Im-Paso-ble!
Derek Hough and Nicole Scherzinger create the im-Paso-ble routine Creative constraints can be a source of resistance; it’s only natural to feel oppositional when you’re being restricted. But creative...
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Free Your Writing with Limits
“Break out of the box by stepping into shackles.” – Jonah Lehrer In the previous post, Do You Know How to Walk Away from Writer’s Block?, I suggested you free yourself by surrendering expectations —...
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Hello Untapped Genres – Goodbye Writing Resistance!
To sonnet or not to sonnet? Iambic or Trochaic? Oh, screw it, I’ll just write a letter to the Queen! Are you a poet who thinks fiction is a waste of words or who can’t fathom writing that many pages?...
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Free Your Writing With Limits
I love a good paradox and this is one of my favorites: the best way to set your creativity free is to impose creative constraints. Poets do it all the time. The sonnet, haiku, sestina, villanelle,...
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New Book Update: How Potato Chip Chapters Made My Novel Leaner
In January, I returned to working on the actual manuscript of my novel. [In previous posts, I reviewed how I added new scene cards to my novel and used a Word table to restructure the novel at the...
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Why Writing Prompts Work
Too much freedom is paralyzing. The invitation to “write anything you want” is too open-ended. We can’t start because we don’t where to start. On the other hand, being told exactly what to write and...
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Random Writing Prompts to Solve Writer’s Block
My last post explained why writing prompts work and provided links for finding them. You can also create your own creative constraints via the Random Scene Generator, a tool I introduced several years...
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