Pals, it’s time for some tough love. We’ve talked about mental health for creatives before and about taking care of your physical health when you’re a writer, but I feel like there’s still something I need to say. You’re struggling with your creativity because your priorities are wrong and you suck at self-care. If you’re […]
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In my opinion, the best tool a writer can have is looking at life and the world from a unique point of view. But how do you learn to do that if you don’t already know how? Fortunately, it’s a skill like any other, and today we’re going to talk about how to learn creative
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Thankfully there isn’t anything inherently unhealthy about being a writer, but focusing so much on work that primarily happens inside our heads while our bodies are mostly staying sedentary can have detrimental effects on our health. But fear not, you don’t have to worry about your body falling apart because of your next best-selling novel
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I’ve been writing stories ever since I learned to write. In fact, even before that, I was dictating stories for my elder sister to write down. However, it wasn’t until after publishing my first book that I realised how little I knew about writing stories and publishing novels. Oops. For a little background, I must
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Creative work can sometimes feel like actual work, which is something I personally try to avoid as much as I can. (Avoiding the feeling, that is, not work.) But although I’d love to work on my creative business 24/7 if I didn’t need to sleep, I still sometimes fall short of the actual creativity, like
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It should be no surprise to anyone that there’s a relationship between creativity and mental health. A relationship where the former suffers when the latter is down. Still, I bet you’ve seen a movie or two with a character who is scared of “getting cured” from their depression because they might lose their artistic abilities.
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Until you’ve written and published a book yourself, the whole process is probably a mystery to you, unless you have close writer friends who have confided in you and who you’ve actually listened to. (I think what I do every day is probably a mystery to most people I know.) I wanted to clear some
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Now that I’m at the final stretches of my novel in progress, it makes sense to take stock of how I’ve been doing and share some tips while I’m at it. This is by no means the first book I’ve written, but I’d say this is the first time I’ve taken a more methodological approach
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Writing while parenting is not impossible and it doesn’t have to be hard. So is it simple and totally free of hurdles? Probably not, but if you go about it thinking about how difficult it is, you most likely WILL struggle. When you’re committed to writing a book, you will just do it. It might
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Whether you’re an aspiring writer or already a more experienced author, you might find yourself wondering if you should start working on a specific story idea that you have. As with most artistic endeavours, you’re most likely the best judge of that, but here’s a quick guide to help you make the decision. Spoiler alert:
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