Part of my Summer Writing Reset has involved blog clean-up and sorting through posts for topics that I need to revisit. The following is updated from 2012. Also see my post on this topic at Psychology Today. Header photo credit: Ned Potter via CC BY 2.0 Who do you think you are? It seems a …
We are all busy. We are all easily distracted. Some of our brains have been hijacked by the election season. Finding time not only to write but to have a writing life of purposeful reading, daily practice, long-term goal setting, and regular submissions may feel like anything but self-compassion.
Resources for writers and other creatives “I don’t need discipline because I love to write.” ~ Jo Nesbø The Discipline of Passion, Part I A good friend sent me a link this week to Marion Dane Bauer’s “While I’m Talking about Aging,” a thoughtful piece about life, death, writing, and the choices we make every …
What if everyone has severe doubts in the creative process, and the only difference between those who finish and those who don’t is that they plow through their negative feelings, treating them as perhaps not just a nuisance, but necessary?
“While some people might find my directness and my dry sense of humor to be offensive and intimidating, there are others who find it refreshing and entertaining. The trick is to surround myself with the latter.” ~ Anna, a 30-year-old from Seattle I was blown away recently by the wisdom of the above thoughts from …