Tag: play

  • Need a Title? Here’s a Title!

    Here’s the thing: I’m not great at coming up with titles. Heck, I suck at coming up with titles. And I have read some great ideas about how to come up with a title. A few weeks ago, a GH sister, Pintip Dunn, had a great post over at Waterworld Mermaids, asking “What’s in a…

  • Stumped … or not?

    Today is the first day this year that I’ve tried to work on my current WIP. It hasn’t gone well. I’m not sure if this is just me, or if it means its time to abandon the project. I’m feeling rather philosophical about the whole thing since, after all, that makes it so much easier…

  • New Year Writing: Step 1

    So it’s snowing here … again. But the sun is shining, and today I am determined to really get started on writing for the year. Yet I still want to be a bit gentle with myself. Here’s what I plan to do today: Play. Yep, you heard me. But the difference is that I’m going…

  • Strange But Fun Research Books

    I’m taking a break from the Regency for this week and instead showing off some of my favorite weird-ass books that I have on my shelves for research. You know the kind: they’re kind of unexpected, they’re not exactly the kind of book you use as everyday reference, they can become an enormous time-suck, but…

  • No Pressure – Just Play Time: Ten Tips to Add Play to Writing

    I’ve written a few posts that have to do with the importance of play, but it would seem I wasn’t taking the advice myself. I found myself the past few months almost frozen with self-imposed rules, expectations, and pressure to succeed. So, I decided that what I really needed to do was remember why writing…

  • Break the Rules, Have Some Fun … and maybe get some terrific writing done, too

    If you’ve been reading, you may know that I’ve been struggling with the last WIP, and then with the new one I started, and it ended up being largely because I was hemming myself in too much with too many self-imposed rules and requirements. This is probably because I’m a bit of a control-freak, and quite…

  • Playing and Making Writing Fun Again

    Well, this will probably feel a bit strange, but first, I’m going to send you away from this blog post, because I just read a great post that inspired this one. So, go check out: Dale Launer’s “Cure Writers Block” In case you haven’t checked it out already, he talks about where he thinks creativity…

  • Have You Played Today? Why You Should Maintain a Sense of Play in Your Writing

    When did you last play while writing? It’s good for you …

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