
How to Get a Free Writing Retreat (Or Almost Anything)
If you’ve ever been a child, you know intuitively how to barter. Like early man, children have no money. They use what they do have to get what they want.
If you’ve ever been a child, you know intuitively how to barter. Like early man, children have no money. They use what they do have to get what they want.
Writing, to me, has long been a practice of cutting.
My darlings!
It felt like the days when I’d first fallen in love with writing. During a long morning stretch on a comfy chair with a coffee,
When you write for the love and as a way to support yourself, the question of why you write can get murky.
Let’s distill it.
Five million people have died. How will you now live?
Why should you raise your fees? Let me count the ways.
The joy in record-keeping is the ability to see your life and business more clearly.
How do we write the story of our lives and our families?
Join us here in the Bookshelf Shame Club.
Success and well-being are two entirely different things.
Last week I went to LA, rented a convertible, and had a vacation during which I couldn’t shake a hum of anxiety. Would I make
The system is messy, confusing, unfair, and hard to deal with, but you need health insurance.
Shopping for a writing coach can be exhausting. Here’s how to find the perfect one for you.
What Is It You Plan to Do with Your One Wild and Precious Quarantine? You do not have to say “I should…” You do not
Reading a slush pile can be your best education in how to write a particular genre.
Sure, great clients pay well, but there are so many other reasons to work for getting them as well.
Ever wish there was a writing resource where you could house emotions to draw from? Enter the Feelings File.
One day last year, I was nearly doubled over in emotional pain, feeling directionless, asking what I should even do with all this pain. A
What is it about sad songs that makes us crave them? Do we want to be sadder? Are we trying to prolong the pain? Or, just maybe, is there a glint of healing in sharing someone else’s sadness?
The ultimate guide on how to get an education, network, and become a successful writer on a shoestring.
Read or watch my conversation with Pam Mandel, author of the travel memoir The Same River Twice.
When you start from a place of acceptance, you’re more likely to find a way to stop disappointing yourself.
In the middle of my wallowing and feeling like crap when the Pandemic began, I took a dance class with Ryan Heffington, which zapped me
Before I moved in with her, I knew Vicki Robin only as the local author of the personal-finance bestseller Your Money or Your Life, the
I was standing on a rock in a yard in Colombia, trying to find good reception. My friend, a novelist, was on the phone, and