Red Room Where the Writers Are

 

The Grammarphobe lessons are taking a vacation this week to rest up and learn about gerunds. Yes, gerunds, not to be confused with Geritol!

(Yet another entry that was started yesterday and I was busy and then passed out before I could post it. Gah!) 

Enough with the light weights!

Advice please. What do you do to regenerate creatively? Or are the ideas for projects just there inside you, lined up like eggs in ovaries waiting for their chance to develop and pop?

So, let’s say you’ve got an actual audience for your reading. Fantastic!

Now what?

Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?

Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.

If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster.
-Gustav Mahler

Never use the modifier "That's the least you could do." You will inevitably be proven to have overestimated the other person.

I just got married less than a month ago and I need help.  I am appealing to those of you who have made this commitment to someone while making the commitment to writing as well.

When I give talks to patients and families I’m sometimes asked if there is
one piece of advice that I would give to ward off eating disorders. To a