I’m doing a blog tour this week and my first stop is at Stuck in YA Books.  Here’s a paragraph of my post…

The first tip is a simple tip, but it helps me whenever I feel grumpy or stressed about writing.  Just write.  It’s a bit like the Nike ad from the 90s: Just Do It.  Turns out that the marketing department at Nike had it right – just doing something is the best way to figure out if you are passionate about it, if you have something to say, if you want to do it again.  And again.  And again.  Because that’s what writers have to do.  Write.  Every day if possible.  And they have to write badly and they have to write messily and they have to get it wrong to figure out how to get it right!

Read the rest and explore their book reviews at their great site.

Here’s a description from the Manchester Art Gallery of one of their objects, a glove:

Single glove in mid-brown leather, embroidered with gold metal thread and sequins.
elongated fingers with squared ends, edged in metal braid with trefoil designs at the knuckles, the braid and the stitching is extended c.1.5 beyond the end of the finger to the knuckle, the fourchettes on the inside of the 2 fingers have lost their stitching, separate thumb section, gauntlets embroidered in gold metal thread in chain stitch, feather stitch and raised pearl stitch, trailing floral motifs with a scattering of gold metal sequins, edged in a gold metal fringe which has come unstitched, gauntlet interlined with linen canvas with the yellow and beige stitching showing, original black silk lining to mask the stitching has largely disappeared although traces remain at the edges

Can you use these words, rearranged, to create a found poem?

Challenge yourself to read an entire novel this weekend.  If you don’t feel you have time, make time.  Your writing will be better for it.