It's all about the reader's emotional response to the page.
It's been said that a day without laughter is a wasted day. Laughter is good. It's fun and healthy for you too! And for us aspiring and professional writers, it's a necessity. A writer's life is challenging enough. So if you have good writing joke you'd like to submit for this page, you may do so by contacting me. In the meantime, have a few chuckles... (and then, GET BACK TO YOUR WRITING!! You've procrastinated long enough!)
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- God and the writer
- A screenwriter's agent
- A passion for tech writing
- How many screenwriters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- How many publishers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- How many sci-fi writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- How many cover blurb writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- If you were lost in the woods...
- Rules to improve your writing
- Heaven and Hell for writers
- Exercising for writers
- The writer and the shepherd
- College writing
- The power of punctuation
- Owed to a Spell in Checker
BEGINNINGS/PASSION
CREATIVITY
- Creativity - Originality - Imagination
- Getting ideas
- Outlining
- Music
- Silence
- Naps - Meditation
- Exercising
DISCIPLINE
PERSEVERANCE
Click on an excuse for a pop-up busting motivator:
- I have no time to write
- I have a day job and I'm too tired to write (headache, been sitting all day)
- I'm not talented enough
- I'm not creative enough
- I'm just not in the mood
- I don't know what to write about
- I'll make a fool of myself
- I have too many distractions right now
- I need a great first line
- I can't get an agent
- I keep getting rejected
- I'm having writer's block
- My favorite TV show is on
- I have to do the laundry, clean the house, go grocery shopping, check my email first, make phone calls, read 100 newspapers I've piled up to get story ideas
- It won't be good enough and rewriting it will be too hard and painful
- I need a new computer
- I can't type
- I'm unemployed and I have lots of time to write but all I can think about is how to pay the bills
- I'd rather go to the beach
- My cat sits on my writing pad
- My ideas seem to disintegrate when transferred to paper
- I drink too much coffee when I write
- I'll write tomorrow. Today I'll spend it with my neglected cat, girlfriend,wife, husband, etc...
