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What You Can Learn From Writers You Hate
It’s an absolute necessity that anyone who wishes to write must read, and read a lot.
Not only is reading proven to improve your writing and help you learn, but reading also exposes you to creative methods you may not have been aware of before. That goes for any creative media. The more you consume, the more you learn and grow as a writer.
For instance, without reading poets like Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson, I would have never known that some of poetry’s greatest works contain zero rhymes. Without watching Memento, I would have never realized that time doesn’t have to be linear in the films I create.
Consuming media doesn’t just teach you, it shapes you.
Moving Past Your Self-Critical Voice: A Case for Stream-of-Consciousness Journaling
Can I ask you something?
When was the last time you had a fight with yourself?
Maybe it was yesterday morning, when you were sitting at your desk with your laptop open and it took you 45 minutes just to draft an email. Maybe it was two days ago, when you met a new person and walked away shaking your head, thinking, How could I have said that?
The Science Behind a Writer’s Mind
Shelves of half-formed story ideas, baskets of lovely and uncommon words, filing cabinets filled with grammar rules. … If the mind of a writer was a physical place, chances are these things would feature pretty heavily.
But, as we may forget, the mind is a physical place—our brain.
Our brains contain our thoughts, ideas, emotions, personalities—basically everything that makes us, well, us. Including the parts that make us writers.
There’s just something about the mind of a writer that allows for the flow of new ideas and creative turns of phrase that don’t come naturally to everyone.
So, what is it?
I’m not the only one to have asked that question—it has fascinated scientists for decades. Join me as I take a look at a few studies that tell us what it is about the mind of the writer that makes it so unique.
A Parody Poem for Blocked Writers Who’ve Lost Their Inspiration
Hello, writers! April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, we thought we’d share this forgotten piece of writing we recently stumbled upon, written by none other than Edgar Allan Poe (sources… er… forthcoming).
This month is a time to celebrate the unexpected inspiration that poetry can offer even the most stoically unpoetic copywriter, entrepreneur, or brand marketer. Poetry is when words (and writers) get to play, and that sense of fun and innovation can be infectious.
Steel your heart, for this is a tale of misery, woe, and lost inspiration—a terror every writer has had to face…