A Roundup for Fiction Writers
Inspiration, Resources, Tips
A gathering of inspiring posts, quotes, and resources to help you get your week off to a creative start.
The quote below is one of my favorite inspirational author quotes.
If you’ve checked out Creativity for Fiction Writers you’ll have seen it on my About page. I believe it’s true since it seems that once I get a burst of creativity it just keeps going and going.
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
~ Maya Angelou
Fashion writer Alec Leach on how he sold 10,000 copies of his self-published debut book. It’s nonfiction but still jam packed with useful insight for fiction authors.
Over on The Author Stack, Russell Nohelty and Claire Tak offer an informative and uplifting post on shushing the negative self-talk in our heads. Not always an easy task but essential if we want to create.
Writer and English professor Jillian Hess discusses Octavia Butler’s handwritten notes, in which the award-winning science fiction author reflected on creativity, imagination, and her triumphs and struggles as a writer.
A link to my favorite notebook for fiction writers. It’s called Page One and has sections for research, plot, scenes, characters, and more.
Tips from artist Beth Spencer on how to resist your smartphone while creating, advice we could all use to get more work done.
Freelance creator Hauwa’s humorous yet biting take on the audacity of being asked to work for free and being grateful for it, something many writers and other creatives are all too familiar with.
Award winning journalist Gillian Orr’s piece was a stark reminder of how much I wanted to be a journalist back when the career was oh-so romanticized in film and elsewhere. Not so glamorous these days.