Writer’s block often comes from fear: fear of not being a good enough writer, and also fear of where your writing might take you if you let your rational mind give up control. One way to overcome writer’s block is to . . .

Where can you find inspiration for your writing? Anywhere! Everywhere! From the snow outside your door to the whirring data banks at CERN, the quantum physics research facility—which was the prompt we offered in our Prompt of the Week online gathering when Susie Shipman wrote this atmospheric piece.

Do you want to be a published writer? The secret to arresting, original writing is to write what you don’t know. Advance your goal of being a published writer by working with our writing prompts . . .

Or we might say, “of the easy writer”! Have you ever had the thought, “I need to find my voice?” Here’s the trick to finding your voice as a writer . . .

Would you like to eliminate writer’s block for good? Check out the three magic ingredients of the Imaginative Storm method.

He knew he was dying. With each breath, he could feel his life’s thread fraying, like the net cast by a spider across the maple leaves in the garden during the night …

There are those who like to disengage their heads and allow them to fly about, mostly in the setting of a bedroom. ..

I don't understand you but my heart syncopates with you. We dance. We collide. We struggle…

Can I pour you a bowl of air?

Music is news to my kitten; paradise returned to me.

“She wanted to name her Aperture …”

“the unimaginable softness that puts butter to shame …”

Jagged memories of the future, can you hear me?

“I will wear white, impossibly white, to my mother’s funeral . . .”

The last century just reared its ugly head,

“It has only been a year since the accident that stole her words from her tongue.”

“Let yourself be nonsensical, it’s a permission slip to come alive. “

When you’re curious, you forget about writing well. You just want to see what comes out. Curiosity and the inner critic cannot coexist.

So I’m standing in front of the Buddhist Master / who’s ignoring me

Playfulness creates opportunities for fabulous mistakes. It gives you the confidence to include the weird things—the idiosyncrasies and quirks that bring your writing alive and give it your signature. You know those moments when you read another writer’s work and say to yourself, “How did they think of that?!” Guess what: they probably didn’t “think of it.” It wasn’t the result of willful effort. It just came to them because they’d trained their rational mind to welcome the gifts of their imagination.