by Christa "Wojo" | May 27, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Ahhh! This is a wonderful tip! If only it were so easy. One of the biggest challenges of writing is to recreate the exact vision we have in our minds. Our final draft never comes out exactly as we imagined. We usually end up with another version of our original idea....
by Christa "Wojo" | May 26, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
We talked about this in the post about all the nasties you write. So many people feel fear and shame about their pasts. Yeah, we screw up. We have regrets, but many of us own guilt that isn’t ours. We hold back in our writing because we don’t want anyone to know our...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 24, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
I think one of the worst things for writing is thinking too much. Our thinking brain is great for clean up, but it will put up a block whenever we do something out of the norm, unexpected, or that breaks the rules. Thinking brain will say, no, you can’t do that. Don’t...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 23, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
Do you ever feel like you have nothing to write about and wonder how you’re going to fill the blank space? Then you sit down and begin, the words don’t stop flowing? We often have stories percolating in our mind without even being aware of them. They might seem like...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 22, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
For a long time, I was spiritually dead. If I couldn’t see it, taste it, touch it, or explain it, it wasn’t real. The only place I felt something holy was when I was writing. Something mysterious happens during the creative process. Many artists feel more like...
by Christa "Wojo" | May 21, 2019 | blog, Kerouac's Writing Tips
I took a few days off from this blog and from working on my WIP to reflect on the past and recover enough strength to continue. It’s funny because I wondered what I would write for this quote about loss and I realize I’ve been swimming in it. I’m working...
