How to Climb the Face of Your Writing Future
By Tineke Bryson, Staff Writer:
If you are shaken by the loss of your earlier confidence and joy in writing, please don’t make the mistake of concluding you just don’t have it in you after all.
Framing Your Writer’s Future
Tineke Bryson, Staff Writer
As a parent, you field these well-meaning but bewildering questions from relatives and friends. They make you anxious, defensive. All the while, you ache for your son or daughter as they wrestle with their own questions, and there’s no way for you to hand them the answers.
Story: Teaching Us to See
Brynn Fitzsimmons, Guest Contributor:
Literature is a mirror. What do mirrors do? They reflect you as you really are. Likewise, stories are capable, like nothing else, of reflecting the fallen state of the world.
Creativity Crumbling: How Toxic Ideas about Originality Will Destroy You
Sam Cooper, Guest Contributor:
Tough criticism should be expected, but in the ocean of comments toeing the line of becoming insults, there is one dangerous judgment a writer can’t brush away. It sticks. “Your story doesn’t seem original.”
In Someone Else’s Shoes – Developing Empathy by Writing Stories
Rebecca Harrison, Guest Contributer
Writers have an amazing and, I believe, unique opportunity to relate to and understand those around us. On a daily basis, we insert ourselves into the shoes of complete strangers, learning who they are, where they come from, why they do what they do.