One of the cleverest smokescreens in writing is creative apathy. This is the point with a project where you suddenly get bored or lose interest in your writing. It tends to crop up at key stages in...
In my writing community, one of the things writers commonly bring up as a question is how to reward themselves for meeting their writing goals. We have a list of questions we answer on our site,...
Writers who tend to join my writing community — and get the most out of it — often have both a deep call to write (whether they're doing it consistently or not) and a specific project they want to...
Something that's helped me when taking on a longer writing project is understanding the natural ups and downs of the writing process. Now when I know I'm in an "up" or a "down", I don't take either...
So many writers I've spoken to recently are talking about finishing; many at that point of having just finished a major draft or putting the finishing touches on one. It got me to thinking about the...
As writers and creatives with a certain sensitivity to life, we can get easily overwhelmed, which can be paralyzing, deeply uncomfortable, and hard to break free from. Let's talk about why that...
One of the struggles writers often face is the fear that comes up around sharing the truth through our work. It might be the truth about what we think or about who we are. Or perhaps it is about...
Two inner conversations about taking the day off from writing, in which we explore the inner workings of the procrastinator and the recovered procrastinator. :) Observe. Conversation 1. The...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called "What is failure? What is success?" As I went to publish the post, I searched for a graphic to go with it, and I was so struck by how the graphics I found...
