Ramona Payne on working from home

Ramona M. Payne’s latest reflection fits perfectly with my own thoughts this summer and is just what I need today after a particularly challenging home-based working week. Head on over to her website to read her five easy rules for working and writing from home: Rule 1 – Don’t do anything during your at-home workday …

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48 Books on Writing for Writers

Thank you to everyone who has helped to add to this growing list. Please leave more ideas in the comments, and happy reading and writing! The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron Publisher Website Author Website Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott Website Bird by Bird with Annie (PBS profile) …

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Who do you think you are?

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 …

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Allowing ourselves to be seen

Following up on Monday’s post regarding perfectionism, this 2010 TEDx talk from Brené Brown on vulnerability and the courage to allow ourselves to be seen—and for our words to be read—seems particularly useful. “The only people who don’t experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection. No one wants to talk about it, and …

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