Writer Prompts: Ship-Wrecked Dinosaurs
Looking for more writing prompts? This picture prompt comes from Rory’s Story Cubes. See what it inspires for you—and me!
Entries by Alli
The Write Life: Mental Health
Mental health and chronic illness are significant blocks to the creative process that can’t be solved by positive thinking alone.
The Write Life: Creative Confidence
When other elements of your life are shaky and disrupting your writing routine, your creative confidence is what holds you and your writing together.
Writer Prompts: Never Go in Against a Sicilian
Looking for more writing prompts? This prompt comes from the Writing Prompts Tumblr. See what it inspires for you—and me!
The Write Life: Approaching Writing Prompts
Alli shares her strategies for interacting with prompts to unlock inspiration from any source.
The Write Life: I’m Back!
It is with great joy that I announce that after a very rough end to 2022, I’m back! There is still a bit of chaos in my home life as we wrap cancer & lung infection treatments for my mom (which will take at least through July), but life has settled enough that I can […]
The Write Life: Hello, Wrench
Sometimes life throws a wrench into everything. That happened to me at the beginning of August with several family emergencies and health problems colliding at the same time. We weathered a multi-day struggle of figuring out which able-bodied adult was taking care of who and trying our best to not simultaneously burnout. During the worst […]
The Write Life: The Juggling Act
While writing is never an easy undertaking, I’ve been struggling more this year. Focus has been difficult, as has maintaining priorities. “Eyes on the prize” is a mantra I’ve been repeating as I continue to become distracted by other responsibilities and projects and things that Sound Cool but have been stealing my attention and energy. […]
The Write Life: The Qualitative Side of Writing
This month has been a lot of Overworked, Stressed Out, and Too Much. All those things in combination make it very difficult to have a productive creative life. Most days this month I met my minimum writing practice by the skin of my teeth, but I met it and, even on the days when I […]
The Write Life: Writing in Community
I’ve recently been focused on mental health, and since I write all the time, how mental health relates to—and sometimes hinders—writing. While I’ve discussed many methods I use to maintain productivity and focus (and will be doing so again in a workshop on June 12), and ways to repackage and reevaluate my goals to keep […]