Fire Up Your Writing Brain

It’s helpful to use your affinity list as affirmations to bolster positive thoughts about yourself as a writer: “I am imaginative, creative, and compassionate. I am open to new ways of thinking and fresh ways of seeing certain issues in life. I am able to focus on what I want this particular work to reflect. I love to think, plan, dream, originate.

The Right to Write and The Vein of Gold.

The ability to experience simultaneous opposition: The artist can conceive or experience being or not being at the same time. The construction of the theory, discovery, or experimental work: The artist creates a new idea that arose out of the thinking that preceded the constellation of ideas into a theory or product.

The first job of a writer is to notice—to see, hear, smell, taste, touch, feel, and intuit—what’s important and then to use those stored memories to produce work that can be grasped at once, in prose that is strong and clean, not muddled. The writer’s second job is to discover and develop his or her unique voice. Voice equates to your distinctive a

Although those changes seemed to diminish shortly after completing the novel, the researchers also discovered greater activity in the somatosensory cortex, the area responsible for the sense of touch and embodiment, suggesting a potential mechanism for “embodied semantics”—that is, the reader putting themselves (figuratively) in the story in a way

The more gray matter you assign to writing, the larger that neuronal network will grow.

One way to build a template is to retype the work of your favorite writer—the first ten pages are a good place to start, as the writer’s best work should be apparent immediately.

activity. It gives physical form to our thoughts and emotions, which is why some of us fall completely in love with the act of writing and spend hours searching for the perfect notebook for brainstorming ideas, journaling, or writing.

dendrites do more than passively relay