Sacred Lakes, Woo Woo, and Flopping in the Mud: A Brevity Blog Round Up on Liberating Our Prose

By Heidi Croot

Stuck in a rut, syntax predictable, metaphors tired—my creative spark cries for rekindling.  

I reach for my marked-up copy of Jack Grapes’ Method Writing, a craft book on how to liberate originality.

Sorry, he reminds me, but innate talent won’t help. Most writers have talent. All it can do is make you look competent. The mind relies on talent, whereas genius emerges from the body—as athletes know “when out of desperation their bodies surpass anything they could have ...