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For Writers, Is Living Love a Process?

“Success has little to teach us during the second half of life. It continues to feel good, but now it is often more an obstacle to maturity than a positive stimulus toward it.” ― Ronald Rolheiser, Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity The day’s list of projects is looking mighty long. I know enough by now to
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When You’re Ready to Start Doing the Work

W  henever I head to the piano to capture what I hear, I have to be so careful. Any little misstep could easily crush it. Even if I play it almost perfectly, one wrong note in the melody or harmony can make it slip away. A similar thing happens in the word work. The best times are when it comes more as something to preserve than to
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What’s Really Left to Say?

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” – Graham Greene It’s Saturday and I’m still working. I’m tired, worn out. Tea, I think. Lord knows, I’ve had plenty of coffee.
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Stay In the Process

I received a reply email from an author. “Looks like I have my work cut out for me,” she wrote. She’d been a client for several months and I’d sent my final edit laying out several things she’d need to do before and after sending it to the publisher. Yes, you do have your work cut out, I wanted to
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Editor to Author: Letter to a Memoir Writer

Dearest Author, I've been thinking about worth lately. What's your story worth? At a recent writers conference I taught a workshop on how I saw publishing changing. Modern publishing, the only time in history when we've had separate "markets" for books, has begun to fracture and redistribute. I've shared several times about how The Shack has shifted things. It isn't
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