How I jump start my writing process - after the coffee.
Some days I stare at a blank page - ok, usually it's a blank screen and think Sh*t, I don't know how to write. Then I realize that I do. I can put words on paper, I can report, but to really write something inspired, is to take the plunge into sensory details, is to sink into what teachers and artists call the 'flow.' Maybe, musicians say that too. I dunno know. Good prose gets me going. I pick up a 'mentor' book like Rachael Herron's Fast-Draft Your Memoir. - Honestly, it wa