Every April is National Poetry Month here in North America, but the lessons learned from the poets among us can apply every day of the year. From Rumi to Dickinson, nearly every person who has put pencil to paper has mused on the...
It would be easy to believe that fiction writing and journal writing are mutually exclusive endeavours, but as the writers below have so eloquently put it – that’s definitely not the case. Journals can of course be places to make...
Having trouble setting some attainable goals for this new year? Feeling a lack of inspiration going into 2017? Check out these ten famous resolutions below for inspiration, or at the very least, a chuckle. 1) Susan Sontag, writer “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to...
A lot has been said around the reasons why writers write. But it’s not just the creating of the words that’s important, it’s the consuming of them too! For today’s Writing Wednesday we’re looking past the initial writing process and into...
Who says the life of a writer has to be a serious one? These ten authors have taken great joy in the sometimes painful aspects of choosing the writing life. On the Freelance Life “The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is...
Writing a novel in thirty days is an entirely different endeavour than simply writing a novel. In order to accomplish the goal of 1557 words per day (or 50,000 total), you need to schedule your writing in a way you...
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and everyone just seems a little bit nicer. It must be summer! Just because school’s out doesn’t mean we should take a vacation from writing. From spreading out a blanket in a park...
The great part about being an aspiring writer is that advice and inspiration are never too far away. Writing is an art as old as time, and over the centuries those who call themselves “writers” have taken to philosophising on...
Love it or hate it, writing with pen and paper is here to stay. And with annual events like National Handwriting Day helping the art form make a comeback, now is a great time to upgrade your handwriting skills. Whether you...
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. So what is the worth of those words used to describe such a picture? Two thousand words? We will let you decide the overall worth of the statements below, but one...