
Can Your Writing do These 3 Things?
What we can learn from words that make us uncomfortable.
What we can learn from words that make us uncomfortable.
When I take any type of vacation, I try to leave all the “shoulds” of my writing life behind. Then the biggest question is, “Should I write at all on vacation?”
Your writer senses tell you “Hey, this could be a story.” But wait! There are steps to getting your idea actually accepted.
If we want those fancy bylines, we have to get past the pitch.
How often do you write something just for the joy of writing?
Take your writing life from striving to thriving with the ultimate life hack: remembering we’re all going to die anyway.
I did the math. Here’s a total breakdown of my business trip expenses.
We don’t want to look back in the fall and think, “Bleh, I have to start all over again!” Inertia is a b-word.
Writing can be a solitary activity, so having a community of fellow writers to celebrate with and commiserate with has been incredibly rewarding.
Writing parody and satire is so fun, so refreshing, I think more writers would do it if they felt permission.
It took me three attempts to learn to use Scrivener, what is now my favorite drafting software.
I highly respect the hustle, but it’s not for me.
There is just something magical about starting your writing with a short mindfulness practice.
If you’ve taken time off from writing, it’s never as simple as just sitting down to write.
Here’s how to get back in the seat and back to business.
In my spiritual life, an attempt at still openness has been central. I never prayed into that openness, until my conversation with Julia Cameron.
What could happen if you committed yourself to asking, and asking everyone, until you found what you were looking for?
If you work now as a freelance writer, or dream of working as a freelance writer, I implore you today to pump the volume to irresponsible, and blast Beyoncé’s Break My Soul.
Overwhelmed by all your to do’s? Calm yourself! Here’s how to take a step back and figure out what’s actually important.
What’s the opposite of a terrorist? An artist.
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?