Meg Dowell Writes

using contractions

When It’s Okay to Use Contractions (and When It Is Not)

“Do or do not. There is no try.” Wouldn’t it have sounded weird if Yoda said…

To All the Stories You’ll Never Finish Writing

If we never learn to celebrate our small steps of progress, we won’t ever be able to appreciate our victories — big or small.
Writers: You Can Only Control So Much

There are tons of things we can’t control as writers. Miraculously, this has taught me to be a lot more comfortable with uncertainty.
Questions to Ask Yourself When You Don’t ‘Feel Like’ Writing

Here are a few questions you can ask yourself in these moments you know you should write, but just can’t get yourself to actually do it.