Seven Ways to Jumpstart Your Imagination

Seven Ways to Jumpstart Your Imagination

New year, new ideas! We’re all planning our writing for 2023 now, but we need to make sure that we prime the pump throughout the year. Here are seven ways to jumpstart your imagination that you can write right into your calendar: #1 Take a walk. Walking has been...
READING: A Writer’s Best and Most Constant Muse

READING: A Writer’s Best and Most Constant Muse

It’s that most wonderful time of the year when curling up with a good book is more pleasurable than ever, because, as Mason Cooley reminds us, “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” But if you’re a writer, it’s also obligatory. We...
5 Ways to Impress an Agent

5 Ways to Impress an Agent

Getting an agent can be a challenge. Given the sheer volume of queries agents receive—such largesse that many agents find it impossible to accept unsolicited queries—it’s not easy to make you and your project stand out. Here are some tips to help you to capture an...
The Presidents on Writing

The Presidents on Writing

Practically every president has written a book; some have even written those books all by themselves. The general consensus is that the honor of greatest writer among the presidents falls to Abraham Lincoln—with Ulysses S. Grant a distant second—but all who’ve...

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