I'm Emma, and I write about writing.
Music — the art of weaving ethereal emotion and unseen sound together to form a tapestry of tangible sensation to those who listen. More than mere entertainment, music is a vessel for intimate meaning, a medium through which the most profound truths and innermost feelings can be expressed. Michael Spitzer, a renowned musicologist, speaks about the origins of our innate musical inclinations ,…
cushaty (noun): the sensation of absorbing an array of emotions simultaneously.
Letter writing isn't lost. It's just different.
Something’s missing here. If you figure it out, write one of your own and keep it going.
In an ideal world, I’d sit down to write every Monday evening at 6 pm. I’d hesitate for perhaps a minute or two, but within my allocated 1.5 hours, I’d have filled my page with the requisite minimum 1000 words of creative writing that I had promised myself. My writing habit would gain a self-nourishing momentum, and I would be a fulfilled and prolific and habitual writer. In today’s very…
I may not be a newbie to blogging for clients, but I do consider myself a newbie to blogging for me. Having a (relatively) fresh website means my mind is buzzing with a million ideas for how to make it what I want my space on the tiny internet to be. I’ve been reading around for inspiration on things you can do on your personal page , and I think I’ve nailed down a few that I want to get done for…
Writing with prompts prompts me to write. Promptly.
A case for brevity.
“What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, ‘Write what you know.’ It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know, we never grow. We don’t develop any facility for languages, an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring…
I’ve got three rituals, and that’s it.