The Working Writer

Whether your a twitter follower (@DailyCreativeWr) or a facebook fan (https://www.facebook.com/seawritemedia) or just one of my loyal friends, here’s the place where I get down and dirty and actually write. Here’s the place where you’ll find travel essays and poems, book excerpts and the fruits of short writing exercises. Maybe I’ll post the pages of the screenplay I’ve been working on since college (hint: it’s about a catastrophe involving the Chunnel) or a paragraph or two of orphan description or dialogue in search of a story to call home. It’s all here. Please let me know what you think, I’d love to hear from you!

High Dives and Leaps of Faith

Writing requires a certain fearlessness in the face of past failures, and sometimes the most frightening challenge involves returning the page once more.

Strength through Surrender

Treat writer’s block like a terrible flu, give in to the symptoms and make the most of the creative hermitage.

Riding the Writer’s Wave

Writers, release the ball and chain of perfectionism and embrace the sloppy, unpredictable but so-much-more satisfying rhythm of fits and starts and landing with a satisfied thump at the finish line.

From Paris with Love

For writers, it’s tempting to try to record every moment of an adventure, but sometimes it’s better to surrender the pen and ink and just let the experience wash over you.

Writing As Habit

The fastest way to become a proficient writer is to make writing a part of your daily routine.There are many variations of the adage that talent matters little when not paired with persistence, and my experiences over the last several months have proved to me that small, incremental steps really can take you farther than you could ever imagine.

Silenced

Stories like Star Wars can help children understand the mysterious world around them by using characters and readily comprehensible plots to present scary, complicated ideas like “the dark side” and dealing with the pressure to do what’s right in the face of what’s easy.

Don’t Get Oscar-Baited

Red carpets and glimmering statuettes are fun, but don’t let the haters convince you it’s all smoke and mirrors. Whether it’s a Hollywood blockbuster or a carefully crafted YouTube video, visual storytelling puts our lives and our experiences in context.

Your Past Can Be Your Creative Guide

As writers and artists, we understand our creations are the culmination of our feelings and experiences, but how many of us are truly mining our histories for gems and treasures to fuel our projects and our self-perception?

Driving Around With A Car Full Of Books

When life’s messy, inspiration abounds but getting it all down on paper can be challenging.

You can win the battle of the run-on!

Telescopic sentences present an opportunity for writers to transform simple scenes with detail and description.

the daily creative writer

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed…”