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The muse

Along with writing rituals, which I went into last week, the muse is a popular notion among artists of all stripes. Born from the Greek...

Something most writers engage in or at least hear of, even when they’re just starting out, is the writing ritual—not that there’s just...

Part 3 in this series will go more in depth about difficult cases of writer’s block that just won’t budge. If you’ve read and attempted...

Last week, I talked about how writer’s block can hold us back from writing when we have a few minutes—and, more importantly, why writer’s...

One reason some writers are resistant to the idea of writing in smaller chunks of time is something we’ve all heard of and probably...

Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, however you define it: time with family or friends or by yourself, eggnog or...

The last letter in SMART goals, T, stands for time-bound. Since the whole scope of my current writing project—the process, not the WIP—is...

R, for realistic, is perhaps the most important part of SMART goals for short writing sessions—and it’s very similar to last week’s...

The third aspect of SMART goals, after specific and measurable, is often phrased as “agreed upon”—and that may not seem to fit here....

Last week I began a discussion of applying SMART goals to your short writing sessions. (If you haven’t read the first post, on S for...