Practice Writing is a daily discipline of getting words onto paper. They don’t have to be great words, and they don’t have to be shown to anyone, but they have to be done. Cultivating a daily habit is one of the best ways to improve your writing. It’s also one of the hardest habits to begin. Read more about practice.
This site is a mish mash of me talking about writing, ways of practice, stationery, little fictions, and possibly wandering way off topic if I let myself. Don’t let it worry you. I’m just practising.
About the Author
Lennie has been writing for a long time. And then she was not writing for a long time. She learned two things:
- Not writing is much worse than writing, even if writing is so difficult you do anything to avoid it, including, but not limited to, working a real job.
- The writing does the writing. If you’re not writing at all, then you never have any ideas. This might lead you even further away from your writing desk but you’re going in the wrong direction.
Once she knew she’d learned these two things she still had to take her time about giving herself some advice:
Stop. Turn around. Sit down and write. Write about writing if you have nothing else. Write about it until you have no option but to bloody well do some.
And here we are.
Joanne Leonard has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, & has been on two Arvon retreats, as well as being a member of a writers’ group for several years. She has critiqued countless pages of her companions’ works, been critiqued in her turn, and learned a good many things about the craft of writing along the way.
