This post is about creative writing and probably wouldn’t apply to professionals that have to meet a minimum word count per day. As a fiction writer, I haven’t set a minimum and I think this is why I’m able to write a fair amount in different genres. The low stress approach means I don’t look at the word counter and panic if I only see double digits. To be honest, I really don’t even understand why a word count per day is important. Sure, if you write only one word per sessio

This is linked to my post ‘ The Art of Daydreaming ’. I realize that I think a lot in a void. Not having social media and not watching TV means that I’m somewhat distant from the modern world. It’s not something that I can quantify, but when I do hear about social media posts, they feel almost like a foreign language.  Not having social media also means a significant loss of audience for a (currently) self-published author. But I can still draw from social media as a bystande

I should explain that this is not the first time I’ve had discussions with another writer, but it is the first time I’ve had a meaningful discussion about writing with another writer. And there’s a huge difference. For those with easy access to writer’s circles, the idea of discussing writing techniques, inspiration and so on is probably the norm, but not for me. I live in Italy, a country that really doesn’t celebrate literature and I’m writing primarily in English which mea