“Asking your work to prove anything only invites doom.” – Art & Fear, David Bayles and Ted Orland I have detractors. It’s good. Everyone needs at least a few. I’ve been saving them up for a while now. All my life I’ve collected resentment for people who tried to keep me down, tried to control me, tried to use me for
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“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita Mae Brown Writing is editing. You know that. You accept that. But do you love it? I’m serious. It’s easy to love writing, even when you don’t. But editing? Who loves that? And yet, if you plan to continue your career as a writer, it may be time to learn. When people ask me about
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I rarely remember it, but I’d be a better writer if I did: What we think about matters. Because attention is a limited resource. Sometimes I remember it’s important to exert energy to reserve my attention and find inspiration to write. And sometimes I completely ignore it. This is not another post on time management. It’s about attention management. I believe there’s a
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“We say God uses all things for good, but we don’t know how to participate in that process of redemption because we can’t acknowledge that we are in pain, that our beliefs are shaken and that the way we think, feel and live is changed. We are unable to get to the good that God works because we cannot face
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