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How To Get Unstuck

That restlessness? Don’t ignore it. It’s trying to tell you something. — First, let’s agree on some things: Creative people feel restless when they aren’t creating. Also: There are always a lot of things eager to block your creativity (why do household tasks seem positively hungry to devour novel-revising time, for just one totally-not-from-real-life example?), and recent events have conspired to add…

Creativity

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How To Get Unstuck
How To Get Unstuck
Creativity

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Aug 7

Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

The real answer is probably “the devil” but let’s pretend there’s other options too — Summer is a tricky time for the creative life, or I think so anyway. The world is so alive and so distracting. It’s certainly a complex time for parents (the activities! the logistics! also does anyone know where the damn goggles are), and for any humans who feel sleepy in…

Writing

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Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?
Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?
Writing

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May 30

One Weird Trick to Unlock Your Creativity

It’s kind of inconvenient. But I swear it works. — In the interest of not burying the lede! » This fall, I hope you’ll join me and Sarah McColl in the dreamy Driftless region of Wisconsin for the first-ever Red Clover Writing Retreat. If you’re feeling stuck in your writing process, stalled on your fiction or memoir project, hungry for…

Writing

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One Weird Trick to Unlock Your Creativity
One Weird Trick to Unlock Your Creativity
Writing

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Jan 11

Writers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*

On frustration and creative clenching. Also, butts. — Hey before we begin: I’m so excited to announce the launch of Writing Co-Lab, an experimental writing school run by a cooperative of teaching writers. My first online class for them starts on January 26th. It’s called Writing for Women on the Verge (do you see my theme?), and it’s…

Writing

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Writers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*
Writers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*
Writing

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Nov 18, 2022

Making Time to Make Things

If you want to write, and you have a busy life, you need tell that To-Do List who’s boss. (It’s you, you’re the boss.) — But how, writers are always asking themselves, each other, me, their Google calendars, can I find time to write? There’s work and family and household and being a citizen and the car needs a new muffler and the cat barfed on the rug and also I’m tired, I’m just so…

Writing

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Making Time to Make Things
Making Time to Make Things
Writing

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Jun 28, 2022

How to Parent via App

What is motherhood but a surveillance state? — Today was the last day of school. This means I filled out my last Covid health form of the school year. I’ve done this every weekday since September, except for the times I forgot and my son had to do it on paper when he got to his fifth-grade classroom…

Parenting

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How to Parent via App
How to Parent via App
Parenting

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·Mar 31, 2022

How to Start a Writing Group

Writing regularly requires commitment — and community — For the last two months, Creators Hub has invited Medium creators like you to come write with us, silently, on a Zoom together, for one hour each week. We provided optional writing prompts, calm music, and minimal intrusion. (My colleague Harris Sockel and I hosted, working on our own writing…

Writing

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How to Start a Writing Group
How to Start a Writing Group
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·Mar 28, 2022

Writing Prompts: Taking Breaks

This week’s writing prompts are about how you take care of yourself — We’ve been sharing weekly #WriteHere prompts for nearly a year, if you can believe that. And now we’re ready to shake things up a little. Starting in April, we’ll switch to a monthly format. Each month, we’ll share a post here on Creators Hub with a whole bunch of writing…

Writehere

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Writing Prompts: Taking Breaks
Writing Prompts: Taking Breaks
Writehere

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·Mar 25, 2022

Dispatches from Writing Hour | Weekly Roundup

Medium creators’ responses to this week’s writing prompts — Since January, Creators Hub has been hosting weekly writing hours, in which we invite everyone to join us on a Zoom for an hour of quiet music, optional writing prompts, and creative camaraderie. After all, writing can be lonely, so it’s nice to write together in this way. For today’s…

Writehere

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Dispatches from Writing Hour | Weekly Roundup
Dispatches from Writing Hour | Weekly Roundup
Writehere

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·Mar 21, 2022

Writing Prompts: It’s the Season of Creative Energy 🌸

This week’s writing prompts are about your rants, raves, and everything in between — Spring is a tricky time. One day (here on the East Coast of the Western Hemisphere, anyway) it’s sunny and bright and everything’s all crocuses and robins and we think, “Hey! Life is pretty amazing!” And then the next day it’s pouring and wintry and there’s rumors of a new…

Writehere

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Writing Prompts: It’s the Season of Creative Energy 🌸
Writing Prompts: It’s the Season of Creative Energy 🌸
Writehere

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Amy Shearn

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Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person

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