The Process

Benefits of Working with a Qualified Editor

Writing can be an enigmatic art form, familiar yet mysterious. What may appear transparent at first glance proves surprisingly opaque

How to Begin?

The question pops up at three different stages of writing. Depending on the situation prompting it, it yields three different

Fits and Starts

Why are beginnings so tough? Something stirs in your imagination, a bright idea that while you are speeding on the

The Zero Draft

An earlier Muze Tap divided creative writing into two separate processes, tree shaking then jelly making, brainstorming material then selecting

A Valentine to Creativity

Creative writing is a lot like being in a close relationship, a comparison that offers helpful insight for writers getting

The Writer’s Notebook

Creative writing begins with creative perception: an alertness to the world around. There is always something bizarre, funny, heartwarming, or

The Other D Word

Asked what they consider their greatest writing challenge, my workshop participants always cite discipline: if inspiration doesn’t find its way

Doubt

Writers hear voices–a provocative sentence or two bubbling up in the mind’s ear; a created, or remembered, character beginning to

Right Brain, Left Brain

Creative writing draws on two separate processes. Because they happen in different parts of the brain, trying to perform them

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