The Writing Cooperative

2 weeks ago | writingcooperative.com | Walter Rhein

THE RECKLESS WRITERIf you don’t utilize the organic transformation of performance, you condemn your work to mediocrityI’m getting older now and I’m increasingly having the experience of trying to share something with my children that I read when I was younger, only to find it to be woefully inadequate. There are scraps of the magic I remember, but the storytelling is often clunky and uninspiring. The pacing is off, and far too much time is spent on exposition.

3 weeks ago | writingcooperative.com | David B. Clear

Oh So ClearWriters keep writingWriters are weird. We often spend more time thinking “I should be writing” than actually writing. More time reading about writing than writing. And when we actually sit down to write, we often end up just pretending to look thoughtful. And if in that moment someone dares to ask how the writing is going, we stare at them as if they had just slapped our grandmother on the butt mid-prayer. Why is this so hard?! Well, duh. Of course it is. Writing is hard.

3 weeks ago | writingcooperative.com | Desiree Peralta

Medium’s largest collection of advice, support, and encouragement for writers. We help you become the best writer possible. Follow publicationYou don’t deserve it yet. “I hope your first book doesn’t go viral. In fact, I hope not the second or the third either.”I read the Instagram message over and over again in case I misread it. I thought that if I read it one more time, the words might disappear or change magically, or I might finally understand what he meant to say. But no.

3 weeks ago | writingcooperative.com | Justin Cox

Today’s Write Now interview features Adam Aresty, author of the SKYBOY series. Who are you? I’m Adam Aresty and I live in Brooklyn, New York. What do you write? I cut my teeth in Hollywood writing horror, sci-fi, thriller screenplays. My 2015 creature feature, Stung, represents some of my younger sensibilities — but I’ve always wanted to try my hand at a novel. I like big-budget, blockbuster type stories and my novel Skyboy totally fits the criteria.

3 weeks ago | writingcooperative.com | Walter Rhein

THE RECKLESS WRITERThe problem with drinking is that it’s a shortcut that leads to a dead endMany writers think a glass of wine may serve as the pilot light to ignite the fires of their imagination. Beer can be too brutish and crude. It’s good for writing amusing anecdotes that will likely be rejected from the college newspaper. The effects of rum, whiskey, or tequila come on too fast. That state of pleasant warmth when the words flow freely is truncated to the point of uselessness.