The Writer's Pulse

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption=""What's in there?" "Only what you take with you.""][/caption] Star Wars probably isn't the first source you'd turn to for writing advice, but a long time ago in a galaxy...

Tips are opinions. No matter how many blogs or magazines you read, the advice you get is never guaranteed to work for you, because we're all different. None of that stops people like me from posting opinions and tips, occasionally laced with fact, but...

Here's something I think you should do if you haven't already: create an idea folder. Newspaper and magazine clippings, passages from books, pictures, observations. Snippets of your own writing, or incomplete ideas. An idea folder is filled with things...

I often have trouble putting words on paper. I wouldn't call it writer's block, but it's something close. Maybe apprehension. A fear of going through the writing process all over again, because I know that, sometimes, it can be hard work. And nobody...

There's one thing I can always turn to when stuck for ideas: music. It's not so much the songs themselves, either. It's what I associate them with. Past experiences, phases, places. People, to a certain degree. So when I'm creatively lost, I listen to...