5 Best Practices for Zoom Writersâ Rooms
Author and professor Terri Francis delivers the top 5 tips for making writing in a Zoom writer s room a pleasurable and productive experience.
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Feb 20, 2021
During this protracted period of isolation due to COVID-19, I have discovered the pleasures and paradoxes of writing in Zoom rooms. Being connected to people on a shared mission of writing deepens my focus yet the thereness of people, the sheer endlessness of other people’s, well, humanity, with their feelings, faces, and cool backgrounds and all, threatens my focus on my own work.
5 Best Practices for Zoom Writers’ Rooms
How to Create the Mental Space to Write
Author Julia Kelly explains why it s important to cultivate internal space to write and gives you tips for how to do so.
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Feb 21, 2021
Virginia Wolfe may have written that every woman must have “a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” but that isn’t always a luxury afforded to every author regardless of their gender. Many of us find ourselves fighting to find the space to write in family-filled houses, shared apartments, or even cramped studios. But it’s the demands on our time and energy that can be even more difficult to fit our writing into. That’s why creating the mental space to write is vital, no matter what stage you’re at in your writing career.
Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Lack of Conflict
The Writer s Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week s writing mistake writers make is lacking conflict.
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Feb 12, 2021
Everyone makes mistakes even writers but that s okay because each mistake is a great learning opportunity. The Writer s Digest team has witnessed many mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them early in the process. Note: The mistakes in this series aren t focused on grammar rules, though we offer help in that area as well.
Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Worrying About What Happens When You Make It Big
The Writer s Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week s writing mistake writers make is worrying about what happens when you make it big.
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Feb 5, 2021
Everyone makes mistakes even writers but that s okay because each mistake is a great learning opportunity. The Writer s Digest team has witnessed many mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them early in the process. Note: The mistakes in this series aren t focused on grammar rules, though we offer help in that area as well.