A guest post on The Cramped from my friend Steve Best on why the humble composition notebook is his sensible default.
Do nothing. On purpose. With permission to enjoy this moment.
Nicholas Bate instructs us on how to get better at writing.
Flying a kite on a frozen lake is not a bad way to spend a Saturday in Minnesota.
James Shelley with an idea worth considering, never leave the house without a book
Julian Summerhayes gives you some reasons to keep a blog.
Somebody had to get her first reading glasses this week. Here she is reading Sarafina and The Black Cloak. #raisingareader ?
Any pen is the right pen. Any paper, is the right paper. Just write.
Today on The Cramped, I wrote in defense of cheap.
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin
Austin Kleon thinks about the very idea of “work-life balance” and it largely syncs with mine. As a writer, I don’t balance the two because they are one in the same. Living is my work.