Tag: writing advice

• #amwriting #endings #beginnings

  

  I keep a running list titled Things I Want to Write About, which is an insanity in itself because the list gets longer and longer and my free time less and less, and the more I think about it, the crazier I get. So, I don’t think about it. In fact, it helps not to…

  skipjackreview

  March 25, 2023

  Writing

  #beginnings, #endings, #lists, #weareope, Fiction, poetry, writing advice

• Writing Practices and Prewriting Rituals

  

  It’s fair to wonder how much our writing practices and prewriting rituals are bullshit—just like it’s safe practice to chickety check ourselves before we keep making the same bad choices into habits in life. I recently attended a writing workshop where a lecture was given on a writer’s life outside of writing—a topic I had…

  Jimmy Huff

  March 20, 2023

  Writing

  #amwriting, Fiction, how to write, literary journal, litmags, nonfiction, poetry, skipjack review, writing advice

• #amwriting

  

  Failures, rejections, and efforts that don’t take flight are our best teachers—though rarely do we learn anything in the moment from such lessons. We just feel the sting. If we’re lucky, criticism is punctuated with admiration and we receive some kind of insight about how to improve a manuscript, for example, but the days of…

  skipjackreview

  March 18, 2023

  Writing

  #amwriting, #weareope, Fiction, Green, how to deal with rejection, how to write, literary journal, midwest, poetry, River Pretty, skipjack review, writing advice, writing is rewriting, writing tips