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More and more, I am realizing that I still have much to learn about who I am, who I am not, how it differs from who I want to be, and how all of that affects my writing. Self-knowledge, however, requires something harder and harder to come by these days: solitude. In one of his …
“It may be a book that will change the course of my life… I have yet to discover a micro-chapter or 140 character status update that holds my attention or imagination.” ~ Erin Reel The following guest post by Erin Reel was first published in 2011 on my former blog site, and it is an …
“Staying focused on our goals detracts from the inherent pleasures of the activities we need to pursue to achieve those goals.” (from “How Goals and Good Intentions Can Hold Us Back“)
A turning point in how I felt about my writing and myself came when I stopped obsessing about wanting to be a writer and realized that what I really wanted—what I’ve always wanted—was to live a writing life. The difference is profound and led to the name of this blog. The idea of being a …
Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 27 Books as Mentors for Writing Students “For two years after my thirteenth birthday I used Oscar’s books to teach myself to be a better writer. Oscar showed me how to copy paragraphs that I liked and study them until their rhythms were a part of my thoughts.” ~ Oscar’s …