There's this idea floating around that the way to find time to write is to cram writing time into every square inch of your life. Just write while you're waiting for your dentist appointment! Just...
I mentioned in a recent post that I've written "in the past" about choosing your "three big rocks" for the year. Turns out "the past" was 2007 (!), so I thought it was worth sharing again. ...
Does staring at a blank page paralyze you? Here's how you can work around it. It's a common vision of a writer's life. Sitting and staring at the blank page, waiting for inspiration to come. But in...
It has been nothing if not interesting to observe myself and all the machinations I've gone through as I've brought myself closer to claiming my dream of becoming a writer. Here's my update:...
A while back I wrote a post called, "Today is the perfect day to clean your writing desk." In that post, I mentioned one of my pals and an amazing organizer, Miriam Ortiz y Pino. Just thinking of...
I've been thinking a lot about happiness, enjoyment, appreciation, and gratitude lately. As someone who tends to be prone to seeing "what's wrong with this picture", it isn't particularly easy for...
We're closing in on the end of the first month of the year. I can't quite believe it! Most of us started off the year with solid intentions to write. How's that going for you? If you're writing less...
Last week I shared an interview with my colleague Jeff Lyons, master storyteller, Enneagram expert, screenwriter, novelist, and author, about his new book, Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master...
Here at Called to Write, we're rereading Steven Pressfield's The War of Art. I've read it at least five times already. And referred to it many times in between. This month, as part of starting off...
It's that time of year. We're all making resolutions and setting goals, thinking about our biggest, fondest dreams, and what we hope to accomplish with our lives in the year ahead and beyond. As...
I waited for years to start writing fiction. Inside, I felt like I had to get some kind of stamp of approval before I was "allowed" to write. That I needed an expert or agent or mentor or master...
I believe in callings. I believe that each of us has something that we were put here to do, and when we find what it is, we must do it with all our hearts. And... it isn't always easy to get clear...