Archive for the 'Writing' Category

Why Writing Alone Is Impossible

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazzards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.  – Joyce Carol Oates We all believe this fallacy that writing is a solitary sport. Of course we write alone. At least, that’s what we tend to think. It’s not a team activity. It’s one writer, sometimes two,
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What Excellence Requires: further thoughts on integrating new knowledge

Hi there. How are you? Thanks for showing up. I feel like I need to start this week’s quick message with some basic encouragement. You made it. You got through. You’re going forward. It’s hard to believe all that happened last week. I barely had time to catch my breath. And now a new week begins. But I learned so
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A Word for Writers on Healthy Integration (or More Accurately, the First Word of Likely Many More).

“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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Writing with God

Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” – Lk 17:19 Last week, I shared one of my favorite posts of all time, “Writing into the Light.” (Link here: micksilva.com/writing-into-the-light) That post has long served to remind me of why I do this, why I fight to write in the light, day in day out. And
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Why I Hate Writing Productivity Apps

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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