Word for Words Blog for Writers

It's great to be busy, especially these days, until you're too busy to write or your energy is sapped by the realization that the wr...

What would we do without moments when inspiration strikes like cloud to ground lightening? I've had a copy of Memoirs of a Geisha on my...

While driving the long and winding road to the train station before dawn, I realized I forgot my glasses. How would I see my laptop, beside...

The only thing worse than not having time to write is not using the time when you get it. In this fragmented, fractured world, where activit...

You have to be a happy person to enjoy summer—it's the season everything is "out there," our bodies on the beach, people in ou...

Old conductors never die, so the saying goes; they just take the midnight train to Georgia. I'd like to take credit for that observation...

On a bleak late afternoon in winter I went into Starbucks and ordered a single shot. I ensconced myself in a tall-backed chair at the window...

How you edit the first chapter of your novel is key. If you began the writing process by crafting a plot treatment, character sketches and a...