When I decide to write, I have one key phrase that I keep in the back of my head: “Just Keep Writing.” It’s a phrase that I mostly felt inspired by through wrestling, specifically a wrestler named Kevin Owens who is a prizefighter who loves to bet on himself while wearing a shirt with the …
Combating Writer’s Block for New Writers Or, Why Writing Too Much Is Never Enough Anthony Cates
Everyone who’s ever picked up a pencil, pecked at a keyboard, or attempted to string together a coherent thought knows the unyielding agony associated with writer’s block—traumatic memories of blank pages staring back at you, a white void demanding to be fed new words so as it can grow to be big and strong. But …
Confronting Difficult Material by Kya Twitty
Sometimes the most important pieces are the most difficult to write. I learned this in one of my writing classes when I set out to write a personal essay about my father, who was never very present in my life due to his long-term drug abuse. Before I began writing this essay, I avoided it. …