Category: Audience
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Why Writers Struggle to Re-Read Their Work
Many writers, even the most seasoned ones, admit that they find it difficult to re-read their own work. The iconic feminist writer of the early to mid 1900s, Virginia Woolf, wrote about the horror of re-reading something after it’s published. She expressed this sentiment strongly in an excerpt from her diaries. “I wonder if I…
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Mindful Writing: How Notebooks Fuel Creativity
As a Way to Focus Thinking and Develop Ideas Poets, writers, and painters often keep a process-oriented journal that records ideas as they evolve. Authors keep a notebook to jot down ideas and focus attention. Picking up the notebook each morning is a type of mindfulness. It’s a meditation but one whose attention is to…