Your Scraps Will Be Your Treasure Later
By Laura Borjas There is a challenge every writer goes through – one might call it a ‘rite of passage’ – where you smear your blood, brains and heart onto the page with no thought to style, grammar or even basic etiquette or hygiene for one month. In accomplishing this goal and passage, you feel, […]
Best Writing Advice: Embrace Your Craft Completely
By Sujana Vangala For years, I lived in a space of hesitancy, in Plan B’s and safety nets. In the same way, my writing survived in sidewalk cracks because I refused to give the sapling a proper pot. Writing was my hobby – something stuck between homework sheets, a page in my Notes app, a […]
Best Writing Advice: Aim for Rejections
By Dorotea Saputo The best writing advice I’ve ever received came from my grandfather who bragged about never having read a book in his life. He was smoking his pipe, sitting on the back porch. I was staring at the sky through the weeping willow when he cleared his throat and said: ‘Aim for rejections, […]