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“Luncheon of the Boating Party,” oil on canvas, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881.
Perspectives on the Craft and Business of Writing
There’s No Such Thing as Writer’s Block: 13 Ways to Recalibrate the Writing Engine
by Wendy Russ
Writer’s block. It’s that phrase we speak tremulously to explain why we aren’t writing or why what we are writing sounds like a page that fell out of a 13-year-old’s diary. It’s a concept that wraps up, in two words, every horrible insecurity we have as writers. (read more)
The Day Your Heart Breaks
by Stephen Parrish
The day my heart broke was the day I decided to become a writer. From the age of ten I’d wanted to be an astronaut. Granted, the choice wasn’t very original, but originality didn’t concern me at ten, the stars and planets did. It was at ten I received my first eyeglasses. Until then I had only been able to see the brightest stars, maybe twenty or so. The first time I went outside at night wearing glasses the view overwhelmed me. (read more)