How to Keep Trying in the Stuck Places
Writing is hard. Learning to write is hard, and the more we learn the more sensitive we get to ways we could improve. Learning and growing is magical and wonderful, […]
writer's block
Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Editing (Part 4): AI Writing Copilots
AI has really come into the writing mainstream over the last two years, causing great excitement and anxiety. Here at CDWC, we are following these developments with great interest. We […]
Self-Regulation: Writing on the Hardest Days
We have written a fair amount about self-regulation in relation to writing. We have discussed strategies for starting, ways to persevere, ways to navigate around procrastination, and the joy of […]
Draft 0 and the Joy of Just Starting to Write
We’ve already written a fair deal about what it’s like to get stuck with writing, some strategies for overcoming stuckness, and what unstuck writing tends to feel like. Today, let’s […]
Writers on the Struggle to Write Well
Today we will step back and look at a selection of relevant quotes by working writers. We should treasure their candid takes about the process of writing. Is Writer’s Block […]
Writer’s Block (Part 3): Overwhelm
We’ve explored writer’s block in previous posts (Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here). Put simply, writer’s block is a constellation of feelings and experiences that is driven […]
Writer’s Block (Part 2)
Writing is hard and will always be hard. Writer’s block will always be lurking in the wings. When it comes, it comes as a big pile of interrelated feelings. Our […]
Challenging Ableism in Writing
These cultural scripts about writing are all misconceptions or half-truths. And when we internalize them, we become our own worst critics.
Writer’s Block
Hello world! In this blog series we will explore the many ways in which writers search for, and typically fail to find, that elusive concept of clarity. Along the way, […]