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How to Stop Stalling and Start Writing

By Elisa Heisman and Rachel Kobin Do you wake up every morning intending to write something? Most of us start our days meaning to journal, write a Haiku, draft a personal essay, conquer that long list of blog ideas, tackle the next chapter of a novel, and so on. But then life gets in the […]

Crushing Writer’s Block: Giving Ourselves Permission to Write

Writer's Blog - How To Get Over It (boot)

How Can I Overcome Writer’s Block? Writers in my workshop often ask this question. Sometimes my first reaction is, “Oh, how am I going to answer that? I don’t get writer’s block.” But, I’m not being honest with myself: I have writer’s block so badly it can take up all the space inside my brain. This […]