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What Do Your Prepositions Say About You?

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” – Kris Kristofferson It starts out as a search for yourself, a part-time occupation giving the journey definition and greater meaning. At least it did for me. It took a few years to determine that primary pursuit, but once I did, it seemed writing was what would lead me to myself,
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Higher Purpose Writers’ Keys to Success: Recover, Reinvest and Protect Your Time and Attention

“What a man thinks of himself determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” – Henry David Thoreau “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7   Our early founders like John Locke and William Blackstone, regarded private property rights as foundational to our personal liberty. This is still true. But our bigger fight today is internal.
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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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Making the Effort Count

  “There is no long run without devotion, commitment, persistence.” – Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit It had been a long, hot summer and school was starting soon. Yet thanks to my tyrannical inbox and the schedule of the self-employed, we hadn’t yet escaped the house. Where else to go but home to Tahoe? It’s actually my grandma Tillie’s home, but
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Healing In the Simplicity of Your Story

“Writing is prayer.” – Franz Kafka In today’s world with ever-more distracting, inane and attention-grabbing information, it can be particularly challenging for new storytellers to overcome the fear that their story is too simple and uninteresting.         We’re the worst judges of our own stories. Despite that and the fact that sharing your story honestly and with vulnerability
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