Do you do New Year’s resolutions? I sort of do. I set some intentions based on who I want to be, goals I’d like to accomplish, and barriers I’d like to overcome. It’s nothing super specific or targeted. But this year, with one girl just entering the ‘tween years and one full-fledged teenager, there’s a certain urgency to get busy
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“The great thing is to prevent his doing anything. As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance. Let the little brute wallow in it. Let him, if he has any bent that way, write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising
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“It’s always the vulnerable heart that breaks broken hearts free.” I read a new book recently and it changed me. It helped me realize something I hadn’t before. Books often do that, of course, but not in a quite so fundamentally altering way. You know how when new information comes, there’s always that period of instability before you can even
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I hate the WriteorDie App. No, I really hate it. It’s as bad or worse than all those intrusive, creativity-killing “productivity” programs. And I have many reasons for my strong dislike…. 1. If you slow down or stop, you get bombarded by loud alarms. Yeah, this is helpful. Apparently, you can’t stop writing even for a few seconds to think. Come on–is this
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“The writer’s job is to abandon their work. To allow others to make judgment of its worth. And to go on to the next story…” – William Stafford Did you write from your pain last week? How have you been at facing your fears through writing? If you’ve attempted it, you know it requires discipline and patience,
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