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“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.” — Rainer Maria Wilke, Letters to a Young Poet For creative writers, who often are most at…
Woodrow Wilson was once asked how long it took to prepare a speech. “If it is a ten-minute speech it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to it requires no preparation at…
Welcome to the launch of the Write to Discover blog. We’ve been around since 2015 when we were known as “Healthy Writing,” and more focused on tips, traps and techniques to help make your writing crisp and clean. As we’ve spent considerable time in workshops with writers of all levels of expertise over the…
The heartbeat is the primal rhythm that forms the basis for all human expression and experience. The writer, like all artists, adds creative interpretation and lyrical variation in pursuit of the wide tones and colors and voices of the many narratives that live because of this primal rhythm. The success of our storytelling, then, is…
When we thumb through a compilation of quotes from great writers we always find comments from them about the importance of reading as a basis for writing. Those of us who write, or who want to write better or more, must have a goal of reading more. Most writers agree that what we read…
We recently read “Louisiana Power & Light,” one of the few novels set in northeast Louisiana, written by John Dufresne. The prose is rich and detailed and led us to a gem of a book by Dufresne about writing called “What Would Chekhov Do?” For all writers, especially those who write fiction, the book…