I recently started teaching a short, informal online course to two friends on the art of structuring and writing a memoir. (These friends are fellow writers I got to know last year when we attended a Creative Non-fiction writing course together) Now in case you start searching online for my course, don't. Because you won't … Continue reading How Teaching Writing Helps My Writing & Lets Me Pay It Forward
This week I attended an introductory workshop for three days on Playback Theatre. Not attended a workshop in quite a while, especially one about the arts. So it was truly refreshing and a welcome departure from my normal routines. Yes yes, I hear ya. So allow me to explain right away. What Is Playback Theatre? … Continue reading How Playback Theatre & Writing Are Connected
I'm excited for today's post because I've been looking forward to writing it for a few months now! But I had to wait for an event scheduled this morning before I could finish writing it. You see, my writer's club scored its first major coup when a local author agreed to visit our monthly meeting … Continue reading My 2024 Musings on Writing #2 – Fireside Chat With Author Charmaine Leung
Writing Fraud I've lost count how manyWere the timesI've felt like a fraudPutting pen to paperFingertips to keyboard Jamming out some rambleOf words I barely understandIn all kinds of funny or sobering circumstanceWith random texts hastily shoved togetherWho am I really kidding here?! I don't know any better Yet... Writing has been seared into my … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #173
I have a confession to make. My mind's a mess! No, not the "I'm-about-to-have-a-nervous-manic-depressive-breakdown" kind of a mess (though now and then I do feel on the verge of losing my marbles when life overwhelms me). What I meant about my mind being a mess is that I'm constantly flitting from one thought to another. … Continue reading My 2024 Musings on Writing #1 — Digital Gardening
Greetings and a happy new year to you! It's a brand new year for writing and I hope you're as excited as I am for what's in store this year on my blog. For my first essay blog post of 2024, I'm gonna talk about...surprise surprise...writing in the new year. Yet what exactly do I … Continue reading Five years of writing. Five hundred over posts. What’s next?
Dear reader This will be my last essay post for 2023 as I take my annual year-end break from long-form writing. (I will however still attempt a weekly poem when I can cos, what can I say? Poetry's my jam!) As a fitting adieu to a busy writing year, I will share about three writers … Continue reading Three Published Writers Who Helped My Writing
Two months ago, I launched this mini-series that talks about the dreaded writer's block. It was all about how simply starting any writing with one true sentence can unlock any writer's creative juices. I followed that up with a second piece last month about how, when stuck, writers need to go even deeper into their … Continue reading Curing Writer’s Block #3 — A Quote (or Four) To Inspire Writers
Recently, I found out about a podcast singing contest helmed by one of my favorite singer/songwriters to walk this planet, Sara Bareilles. At the same time, I found a related interview with her in Forbes about this contest (aptly called Breakthrough; unlike other singing contests, judges in this one listen to but don't see contestants … Continue reading Curing Writer’s Block #2 – Going Deeper Together
This week, I was reminded of what the great Ernest Hemingway once said, All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. By this, Hemingway would effectively beat writer's block. Once he could write a single true sentence, Hemingway found himself able to write the next sentence. … Continue reading Curing Writer’s Block #1 — Start with one true sentence
