Mal is a content writer, entrepreneur, and teacher with a passion for self-development, productivity, relationships, and business. As an avid reader, Mal delves into a diverse range of genres, expanding his knowledge and honing his writing skills to empower readers to embark on their own transformative journeys. In his downtime, Mal can be found on the golf course.
The usual story about bad writing is that it's a skill problem. The writer didn't learn the rules, didn't trim the fat, didn't have a teacher who beat the passive voice out of them. Fix the technique, the thinking goes, and the fog clears. I believed this for years. ...Read More
King's argument, when you strip away the prolific-novelist mystique, is uncomfortable. He is not saying you should write quickly because you'll get more done that way. He is essentially saying that if you don't write quickly, the thing you started will not be the same thing by the ...Read More
One of most common complaints I hear from people who work alone in somewhat creative jobs is some version of the same thing: I sit down in the morning, and the first thirty or forty minutes are spent staring at the cursor before any actual work gets done. ...Read More
When Harriet Doerr finished reading her work to the other students in Stanford's Stegner creative writing program, the room went silent. She was seventy, decades older than the rest of the workshop, and she assumed the silence meant they hated it. They hurried to tell her it was ...Read More
There is a cursor blinking on a white screen. There is a working title at the top of the document — something I typed in two days ago and have since stopped looking at because looking at it makes it real. There is an outline I drafted on ...Read More
Try something. Pick a writer whose work you admire — doesn't matter which one — and look up their daily routine. The internet is full of these. There are entire books made of them. The thing you will notice, after the third or fourth one, is that none ...Read More