When you’re low on writing inspiration or motivation, use these prompts, interviews and reflections to get in the creative flow again.
If you’re not sure where to start, poets should go here:
7 Poem Starters When You’re Feeling Uninspired
Short story writers should try this:
How to Come Up With Short Story Ideas, Every Day
And novelists — or others working on longer projects — might find this useful:
How to Start Writing Again After Falling in the Ditch
Now go off and be creative!
As Stephen King advised in his book On Writing, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” There’s great truth in this for fiction writers. To write well, you not only have to practice — to actually write — but you also have to … Read more
Three languages in one poem? Can you do that? It was one thing, perhaps, to encourage you to write in a foreign language … but that was just one. If you write in three at a time, who will understand you? I admit I asked myself the same question before writing today’s poem. In the end, … Read more
It’s back! Last June, I posted a draft of “The Lime-and-Tequila Love Song” as a revision exercise. The idea was to see what different poets would do with a single rough draft … and to give you an exercise in creativity and voice. I was really excited about the response, so we’re back for another round. Like … Read more
I once read that if you want to be a writer, you must take an ax to the rest of your life. Writing, like other arts, demands time. You need time to create. Time to ruminate. Time to rethink and revise. You even need time to share and promote your work. Then, when you start to build … Read more
Fiction writers, does this sound familiar? “I want to write a story, but I don’t have any ideas!” YAWN. Look, I know the feeling. But you can’t use that excuse anymore. Why? Because I’m about to give you a story-generating tool that’ll leave you with no excuses. Except maybe that you have no time. I respect … Read more