Limit Yourself

A blank EtchASketch makes it pretty clear that I’ll be doodling around in squares because the drawing dot only moves in four directions, each at right angles to the other. The now defunct National Novel Writing Month was about throwing off the limits that keep us from creating. The NaNoWriMo site no longer exists, but […]

The Olympic Games Blues: 9 Ways to Juice Up Your Writing Life

Local people call this building Zitronenpresse or the “lemon juicer.” What do you do when your writing life runs out of juice? © Laurel Decher, 2016. Do you need to turn off the Olympic Games? When my older brother and I were 8 or 10 or 12 years old, Mom would turn off the Olympic […]