With this, there’s little choice but to write — Have you tried writing in your car for a change of scene and more focus? I find cafés too noisy. Libraries might work, but the closest are cramped, and in my car no mask is needed. No worries, my phone won’t tempt me. What about laptop car chargers? At least thirty bucks, hmm. While super minimalism isn’t my goal, I’m not very spendy. I’d prefer not to add more stuff.

Reading this brought to mind my recent feeling that my writing has become quite plain, maybe precisely due to my experience in editing others' work. I don't seem to have much of a taste for the literary anymore (I'm not mourning that; I'm just observing). Maybe I'll turn it around and look at my plainspoken straightforwardness as an advantage.

These … help them write? — I’m no productivity wonk, but advice about it is hard to dodge. Everyone and his cat knows the popular tips — we’re all wise to checking e-mail once daily or delegating inboxes completely. We know multitasking isn’t a thing, it’s only task switching, and it slows us down by up to 40%. So I was surprised when two business influencers —Jessi Hempel, who hosts LinkedIn’s Hello Monday podcast, and Adam Grant, a well-known author and professor at the Wharton School–admitted that e-mail and task switching help them write!

They’re not actually unique. But this tip can kickstart your writing — Have you noticed that it can be hard to start writing? Experienced at editing others’ words, I only recently decided to write for an online audience. I’m gathering tips and advice from you all on how to do this. I’ve learned so much! Here’s a tiny tip of my own. …

It’s a sudden experiment, prompt by prompt — Artist in Writerland First, what a fun, unexpected discovery Art Tales is! I hadn’t realized there would be publications on Medium dedicated to art when I got here a month ago. I’m a visual artist as well as a word person, yet this is my first-ever Inktober Challenge. I was…