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...
It's a busy time. There's a lot going on and a lot expected of us with the next round of holidays looming on the horizon. It's also a time when we start looking ahead to the new year. Maybe more in...
It's Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so many of us are thinking about gratitude.It occurred to me that since here at Called to Write we focus on writing, it might be worth thinking about what we are...
I wrote recently getting a handle on online distractions that keep you from writing, and prior to that, about cutting back on the online distractions that were cluttering my head. I've been highly...
So let's return to our topic of choosing your next writing project. In my first post in this series, I wrote about where and how writers tend to get stuck choosing writing projects. In my...
Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to psychologist Jessica Michaelson speak about dealing with our "click and scroll" compulsions in the context of how they keep us from living the lives we...
Today I'm continuing a series I started last week about choosing writing projects. This is the first post of the series where I'm delving into HOW to choose a project. In the last post I wrote about...