Tag: 30 day writing challenge
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Writing Challenge, Day 12: Magpie
30 Day Writing Challenge Day 12: What is the last book, story, or poem you read that had an effect on your writing? Are you a better writer for having read this work? Maybe it’s just the put-a-bird-on-it Portlandian in me talking, but when it comes to writing I’m quite the magpie: I approach every […]
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Day 11: You Can Have Your Cake…if You Research it First
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 11: How much of your writing time is purely research? The amount of research I do depends entirely on what I’m writing. And yes, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I do conduct research for just about everything—and often generous amounts, at that! Anything nonfiction—articles, […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 9: Voice
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 9: Do you feel that you have found your voice in your writing? Or are you still searching? This question is difficult for me to answer objectively. It would be like asking a painter “Have you found your technique?” or a fashionista “Have you found your style?” Anything […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 8: Ghosts, Superhorses, and Sock Monsters
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 8: How old were you when you started writing? What did you write? I started writing in grade school. To be honest, memories of my earliest work are vague, but here is what I recall: 1st or 2nd grade I wrote a short story having to do with […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 7: the Myth of the Muse
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 7: Do you find that inspiration to write happens organically, or do you sometimes feel that you need to seek it out? I feel that we must court experience: ideas sparked and new connections made are the organic results of exposure to new people, places, and things. Sure, […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 6: The Spinning Wheel
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 6: What do you find to be the most rewarding aspect of being a writer? The work is the reward. For me writing is a struggle to convey myself, to portray thought and emotion and senses in words and structures and rhythms. Expression is creative problem solving, and […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 5: “The Honey of Peace”
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 5: What do you hope a reader will take away from your writing? Short Answer: “What? No! When does the next book come out???” Real Answer: Just kidding. I wouldn’t want my readers to come away unsatisfied! (Though hungry for more is perfectly acceptable… ;)) Robinson Jeffers has […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 3: The Inspiration Jar
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 3: What’s the BEST writing advice you ever received? “Good writing is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” That both reminds me my frustrations are worthwhile and encourages me to keep sweating because it means I’m going somewhere. It means that any writer can start with almost nothing, […]
Julie Israel 