Archive - To Write with Wild Abandon

✍️ Is Your Writing Pretentious?

or, Why the Bean Mouth Style Matters - What's the difference between good art and pretentious ass-hatting? It may come down to one key element.

Jul 1

June 2025

✍️ No Words are Wasted

or, What Might Look Like a Drain on Productivity is Actually Proof of Productivity - Writers are like hoarders - we hate cutting words. *This* makes it…

Jun 17

✍️ Community, and How It Can Improve Everything about Your Writing

or, Sometimes All You Need is a Tall Glass of Water - How writing communities can be a magic, invisible elixir to help motivate you and make writing…

Jun 3

May 2025

✍️ I’m Writing in the Face of Doubt

or, How I Beat On, Boats Against the Current - I have my doubts, but I'm writing anyway. Here's how, as well as some ideas about how you can, too.

May 20

✍️ How Do You Write Best?

or, Exploring How to Explore How to Find Your Writing Groove - Finding out the how you write best will make you more productive, creative, and…

May 6

April 2025

✍️ Gatsby at 100

or, Baby, Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Dreams Go? Today, April 10, 2025, is the 100th Book Birthday of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Apr 10

✍️ The Importance of Being Wilde

or, More Proof that Having Fun Leads to Increased Creativity - Dorothea Brande's book from 90 years ago echoes through the decades.

Apr 1

March 2025

✍️ Are You Selling Out?

or, Why Pride Sometimes Comes Before the Rejection Slip - "Artistic integrity" is a slippery slope to "unpublished". How to take feedback and keep your…

Mar 11

February 2025

✍️ New Adventures in Planned Pantsing

or, Humbly Building upon Atwood’s Worthy Advice for the Innocent Pilgrim - A recent writing retreat allowed me to experiment with "Planned Pantsing".

Feb 25

✍️ The Writer’s Sketchbook

or, How to Write it, Write It, Write It - Artists sketch, potters start with a lump of clay. So why do writers feel they have to get the first draft…

Feb 11

January 2025

✍️ In Defence of Pantsing

or, How Putting One Word After Another May Be Power, But... - Pantsing is great, but we still need a story structure. Here's how we can have both.

Jan 28

December 2024

✍️ How Your Choice of Words (and When You Use Them) Can Affect the Reader in Different Ways

or, I’ll Do the Rolling, You Do the Detail - Giving readers clues, including through specific, charged words, gives readers context. Here's what I've…

Dec 31, 2024

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