Writing through the Fog is Here!
In Writing through the Fog, a first-of its-kind guide, I present unique and sometimes surprising tips to keep a foggy brain focused and writing. I began struggling with MS-related brain fog more than a decade ago, and relearning to write became my obsession. …
Weekly Writing Exercise: What’s Missing?
Find a photograph (a candid photograph works best, but any will do) and sit with it for a few minutes. Imagine the full scene – the photographer, the people and things not seen, the moment just before the photo was taken and…
Weekly Writing Exercise: Escaping
What does the word "escape" mean to you? There's the spa-like definition, fleeing danger, retreating into a world of fantasy or a television show or novel, breaking free from conventions or restraints, absconding from the law, dying, leaving the rat race....
Weekly Writing Exercise: The Proust Questionnaire
When Marcel Proust was a young teenager, he answered a questionnaire of the sort popular in the late 19th century. That questionnaire can help you to delve thoroughly into your characters, to get to know them more intimately and profoundly.
Weekly Writing Exercise: Use the News
Whether you greedily devour each day's news or you shun it altogether (like I do), this writing exercise will turn the scraps of the day into fodder for your creative mind.
Weekly Writing Exercise: Startling Descriptions
Choose something specific, something commonplace, and describe it in the freshest, most unexpected, most honest way you can.
Weekly Writing Exercise: Old Photographs
Pick up an antique photograph at a flea market or junk store and sit with it for a while....
Weekly Writing Exercise: Brain Dump
It doesn’t have to be good writing. In fact, it shouldn’t be good writing.
Just Sit: How to Begin and End Your Writing Session
Just sit. And stay sitting. This is harder than it sounds.
Weekly Writing Exercise: First Lines
Visit a library or bookstore and choose a book by an author you’ve never read, a book about which you know nothing. Crack it open and copy down the first sentence, then close it and put it back on the…
