The writing life requires courage…It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. – Dani Shapiro What we don’t know can and does hurt us. The old saying was never true. We hurt when we’re ignorant, and so does everyone else. In fact, I wonder if ignorance is the main reason we experience so much pain in
Read more…
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou For a long time, I believed the common wisdom about being a more productive writer. I took the usual advice about setting small steps, getting on a schedule and visualizing the end goal. But I could never follow through. Was there something wrong with me? Why couldn’t I stick with the
Read more…
Regardless of how little is left of the day, there’s still time to write the daily clutch of words. Despite the fact that my brain is doing its usual whirring with all the things to get done, the manuscripts needing edits, consult calls to make, talks and articles to write, courses to plan, a boulder to shoulder up the hill…
Read more…
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
Read more…
