A Writer’s Journey

A writer’s group provides an author inspiration, feedback from fellow writers, and provides a social community to which one can share their craft with others of like mind. You may find, however, there are no groups in your area. This article should help you form your own network, easily and without fuss.
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One tip many published authors have given is simply…. to write. The very act of writing, and writing regularly will help improve writing. This means you should find the means to get something down every day such as a blog, short story, or whatever medium you’re writing in, but to get something written every day.
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Writer’s block….the very phrase is enough to strike fear into the heart of a writer, but its inevitable. You sit and stare mindlessly at the blank page, unable to rouse enough interest in any subject or topic if your life depended on it. Fear naught, there is hope.
Freewriting is a very useful tool to break [...]

One of the toughest aspects of writing is finding the inspiration to write. What we’re talking here is enthusiasm. If you’re not excited about your subject or your life, finding the right words to express yourself will be clumsy, awkward, forced, and otherwise unreadable. A bored writer writes boring material, in general.
How often have I [...]

I learned years ago that in the area I live in, if there wasn’t a group available for me to join, I’d simply start my own. So when I started looking around for a writer’s group to join, there was no big surprise that most of them are located near the city. (Washington D.C.) Baltimore [...]

When I started looking around for a writer’s group to join, there was no big surprise that most of them are located near the city. Washington D.C. and Baltimore had a few, yet most were an hour’s drive with traffic reminiscent of a high speed video game. More importantly, they were not here.
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Something I learned today was the value of an easy activity known as ‘freewriting’. What is freewriting? You start with a blank page, or word processing document, and write for 5-15 minutes. You write; just that. You don’t worry about grammar, or sentence structure, or even dotting your ‘t’s. You just write.
This activity was perfect [...]