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Writing Habits and Practices Constraint Is What a Creative Needs

Author Anna Rollins weighs constraint against total freedom for writers and other creatives and makes a case for constraint.

Writing Habits and Practices Creativity Exercises: 3 Ways to Awaken Your Mind to Poetic Thinking Natalie D-Napoleon

The Writer's Life How Taking a New Path in Writing Can Fire Up Your Muse Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

There Are No Rules Blog by the Editors of Writer's Digest Preparing Your Mind for Writing: How to Make the Shift William Kenower

What's New 5 Steps for Getting Out of a Creative Rut E.J. Wenstrom

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