Life

A Writer's Fantasies
As writers, most of us have big dreams for our stories. You know. The usual. Your novel becomes a best seller. Or it gets adapted into a movie.
By Jasmine Aguilar4 days ago in Writers
Your Life Will Never Be Empty Enough To Write. Write Anyway. Here's How.
I've never had a clear schedule. Not once in my entire writing life. When I wrote 1 Lovelock Drive, I was a full-time freelance copywriter. When I wrote a column for a well-known publication, I was freelancing, drafting my second novel through daily Substack posts, building an email list, and managing ADHD that turns every transition between tasks into a negotiation with my own neurochemistry.
By Ellen Frances4 days ago in Writers
Why Do We Write When No One Is Watching?
I sometimes wonder why people write when no one is watching. Not when there is applause. Not when thousands of readers are waiting.
By Ibrahim 5 days ago in Writers
The Moment Before a Sentence
There is a strange moment that happens before writing begins. Most people never notice it. Readers certainly don’t see it. For them, the story simply exists. Words are already arranged on the page, sentences flow one after another, and everything feels intentional.
By Ibrahim 5 days ago in Writers
Chicken Slippers
I was in a rush. I had 30 minutes to get groceries on my lunch break so that I wouldn’t have to stop after work. I strategically bobbed and weaved through the holiday aisles stuffed with seasonal nonsense, organized in a fashion I can only describe as a hoarder’s wet dream. I must have swore in my head at everyone in the store at least eleven times before I got hit by an invisible wall. Inertia threw me into the very thing that stopped me like a cold, wide-palmed slap in the face. I stared in disbelief. I couldn’t help but marvel at the treasure before me: chicken slippers.
By Emily5 days ago in Writers
The Thought That Wouldn’t Leave
I wasn’t planning to write tonight. The truth is, I had already decided not to. It had been a long day, the kind that quietly drains the mind without announcing it. I told myself I would rest, maybe scroll through a few things, maybe close the laptop early and pretend that ideas could politely wait until tomorrow.
By Ibrahim 5 days ago in Writers
The Sentence That Pulled Me Forward
I wasn’t planning to write this story. In fact, I was supposed to be writing another one entirely. A different idea had been sitting in my mind all morning, tapping patiently at the door of my thoughts like a visitor who refuses to leave. I even opened a blank page for it. The cursor blinked. The silence settled.
By Ibrahim 5 days ago in Writers
The Joy of Pink Bagels 🌸🍩
Now, I know. I was skeptical myself, verrry skeptical. When you think of pink bagels… which you don’t, so actually let’s just say “the one time.” The only time.
By Gabriel Shames5 days ago in Writers
Real Menopause Education
I hit menopause at 45, and it felt like my body had slammed a door I didn’t even know was closing. That’s considered early, but later I found out I’d had PCOS my whole life.
By abualyaanart5 days ago in Writers
The House I Could Never Find
I am standing in front of a house. It is small, with old yellow walls and a weathered roof, the kind that has survived enough seasons to earn its softness. Time has left its mark everywhere - in the cracks, in the faded paint, in the quiet wear of its exterior - but none of it takes away from its beauty. If anything, it makes the house more lovable. Some things become more precious, precisely because time has touched them.
By Gabriella Reti5 days ago in Writers
My Process
This tiny episode, now recorded, becomes a testament to the way the mundane can be woven into the tapestry of a larger narrative, and I realize that the journal I am writing is itself a living document, constantly absorbing the present moment’s details.
By Forest Green6 days ago in Writers
Dude, if you gonna steal my story...at least change the title.
SOOOOOOO! I wrote this 3 (three) months ago. And I just saw this pop up today, 12/3/2026 I am still deciding on which emotion to display here. Rage, ennui, laughter, pity or just downright ire and indifference.
By Novel Allen6 days ago in Writers