Inspirational Things

© Larissa Marantz

INSPIRATIONAL THINGS 

GOOD ARTICLES

Stephen King's Top Twenty Rules for Writers 

Writing Insights Part One: Becoming a Writer

How to Create the Perfect Writing Process for You

How to Level Up Our Writing

What Collecting 100 Rejections Taught Me about Creative Failure

"Go With What's Alive" and Other Writing Advice from Philip Roth

The Tao of Writing a Novel

On Story and Death and Life

A New Year

 
 

How to Be a Productive Writer

How to Get Your Writing Done When New Year's Resolutions Don't Work (and They Usually Don't)

Inspiration

 

Keep Making Art Even When the World is Ending

Be(ing) a Writer

In Writing, Progress Doesn't Always Look like Progress

10 Pieces of Advice I Wish I Had when I Began Writing

How to Get Story Ideas: 17 Useful Methods (2019)

Pep  Talk from Anne Lamott

A Productive Rant About Setting Goals as a Writer: And How Doing So will Set You Free! 

12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing

Creating an Author Success Map: Why Reasonable Expectations Can Help Grow Your Author Brand

Writing Self-Care When the World is Afire

Keep Making Art Even When the World is Ending

Yes, Writers Need to Hear the Hard Truths. But Warnings Can Only Go So Far

Sixteen Things You Need to Become a Writer (and Twelve Things You Don't)

Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Believing Naysayers

The Creativity of Emotions

Happy Writing

Advice for Young Writers & Illustrators from Children's Book Creators

Anxiety and Sharing

What If You Have What You Need

Imitation and Emulation: Stealing Style, Structure, and Subject from Other Writers

Do You Need Personal Experience to Write About Something?

Writer's Block

Writing Tip: Ask This Question When You Have No Idea What to Write Next

 

9 Weird Ways to Beat Writer's Block

3 Ways to Restart Your Writing Brain

Writing Motivation

The Value of Percolation

How to Write a Book Without Having to Write a Book: What Burnout Taught Me About Process

Sidequesting: An Antidote to "I Should be Writing"

Diagnosing Writer's Block: Symptoms, Remedies, and Prevention

Decision Trees, Angry Bees, and Other Writer Brain Hacks

Writing Even When it Sucks

Conquering Doubts

Self-Rejection: What it is, Why You Do It, and How to Eject Its Ass Out of Airlock

Advice for the Invariable Moment When You Decide to Quit

Dealing with Rejection in Children's Publishing 

Writers: Look Forward, Allow Mistakes

Pep Talk from Kacen Callender: Kick Out the Little Voices in Your Head

7 Steps to Stop Overthinking your Writing

Don't Despair 

Writing (and Living) in the Midst of Fear

How to Stop Being Jealous of Writers Who Succeed

Power of Persistence

Dreams or Delusions? The Real Odds of Author Success

7 Secrets of Highly Persistent Writers

Always be Writing

Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten 

Courage to Create 10: Expectations: The Time It Takes, Is the Time It Takes (podcast)

Are You Growing as a Writer? (Here's the Only Way to Tell)

Time Management/Productivity

How to Stop Procrastination

Time Blocking

Ten Tips for Wanna-Be-Focused-Writer by Tina Cho

Develop a Writing Practice

Want to Be a Productive Writer? Three Clues

Throw Away your Writing To Do Lists 

Finding Time to Write

Don't Feel Like "Getting Things Done"? It's Okay Not to Be Productive During a Pandemic

Being Productive Can be Self Care

Write or Die: Is This the Tool that Finally Conquers Your Procrastination?

Routines and Cues to Keep You Writing Consistently

Prioritize Yourself

You Can't Do it All

Do You Have to Write Every Day? 10 Pros and Cons

De-Stressing

A Writer's Guide to Holiday Stress

Ten Commandments of a Happy Writer

Writing in a Time of Anxiety

It's Okay That You're Not Okay (includes language)

Age is A State of Mind

Another Look at Steig 

10 People Whose Lives Began at Age 60

Advising a 60-Year Old Who Wants to Write

Age is Just a Number

It's Never Too Late: Seven Authors Making Their YA Debuts After Age 50

Video inspiration

TED Talks for Children's Writers and Illustrators

Time lapse video of a Book Deal

The Clues to a Great Story

The Best Things in Life are on the Other Side of Terror (Will Smith on fear)

Community

We are On This Journey Together: Writers Helping Writers