Photo credit (cropped): matryosha (CC BY 2.0) “You just have to turn up.” ~ Ian McEwan In a recently published interview, bestselling and award-winning author Ian McEwan spoke about the difficulty of the writer’s private “hiss of silence” (scroll to the bottom of the post to watch the video): “Sometimes I think I don’t like writing. …
Photo by D. Sharon Pruitt (CC BY 2.0) Below are some of the responses that you gave to the question why do you write? [my bold emphases added] I write to make sense of dreams. I write to flesh out ideas that will otherwise evaporate. I write whenever I give an assignment to my students—I’ve …
With one week to go in the blog series, I am happy to show you my latest book cover idea (tada!): After mulling over and discarding many titles (and even more images), I like Create a Writing Life for three reasons: CREATE: A life of writing doesn’t just happen (serendipity) nor is it the result of …
When we push through our self-doubt and fears—rather than thinking ourselves into inaction—we build our confidence muscles.
One thing I love about the practice and profession of writing is that there is no narrow window of prodigious achievement (in other words, we aren’t “washed up” if we haven’t made it by age 30) and there is no mandatory retirement age. In fact, more life experience allows for greater and more connections, what West calls “integration of a whole life.”