For quite a few years, Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, has published its annual Mindset List. It started as a way to remind professors of what their incoming freshmen know and don’t know.
The Mindset List is also a great resource for writers who forget how quickly time passes. The first item on the new list, which was released Tuesday, is a sad reminder that this year’s college freshmen were starting kindergarten on 9/11.

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2018/

My Shakespeare & Co. — the place that inspired me to write — was my local library. I didn’t join a writing group until many years later.
David L. Ulin found both inspiration and support at a bookstore he helped to open.
That support — and the feeling of being taken seriously as a writer — is, I suspect, something we all crave.
I think I first felt support for my fiction when, at my first writers conference, an agent took seriously my accidental elevator pitch. But that’s a story for another day.
I’m curious. When did you first feel supported as a writer?

What Shakespeare & Co. taught me about being a writer – LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-what-shakespeare-and-co-taught-me-about-being-a-writer-20140825-story.html

Whatever your routine — and this post offers steps for developing the “perfect” one — you need to stick to it to get to tge end of the story.

The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine | Brain Pickings
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/08/25/the-psychology-of-writing-daily-routine/

Have you ever heard of the Hemingway App? It’s new to me, but I think it might be fun to try. Look for it at the end of this advice from Joan Stewart.

The Top 9 Writing Mistakes And How To Fix Them
http://thefutureofink.com/writing-mistakes-how-to-fix-them/