Your Writeful Place | October 2019
A monthly column from The Writer's Center
Silence the Impostor Syndrome’s voice so you can hear your own
You are an impostor. You don’t belong here. You can’t write anything that will sustain anyone’s interest.
Sound familiar? Then you are under attack by the Impostor Syndrome.
The battle is waged in your own mind where you are […]
Your Writeful Place | September 2019
A monthly column from The Writer's Center
You Are Not the Person Yelling at the Television
Take a moment right now. If you are in your home office, study, or library, or even just close to the place in your home where you keep your most favorite book, stop reading this for however long you […]
Your Writeful Place | August 2019
A monthly column from The Writer’s Center
by Whitney Fishburn
If you stand, be sure to deliver
Standing desks have become more common in the last decade. Chief among the arguments used in their favor is health: sitting has been associated with a host of chronic ailments including obesity, heart disease, and type-2 diabetes. Careful, though. […]
Your Writeful Place | July 2019
A monthly column from The Writer’s Center
by Whitney Fishburn
Pacing one's self for the slog that is writing
I took this photo in the parking lot of a visitor center in Big Bend National Park, overlooking a pitched, red rock valley in the Chisos Mountains. That’s in the central Chihuahuan Desert, […]
Your Writeful Place | June 2019
A monthly column from The Writer’s Center
by Whitney Fishburn
Regardless of whether you’re writing fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, you have a process. Perhaps you make yourself a cup of coffee, settle in front of your computer, open a blank document, stare out the window a few moments, or indulge the sudden urge to look at your […]
