Art of Boredom
As an only child until the age of 14, my memories are rife with long swaths of time full of…well, nothing. Lying on a prickly carpet, waiting for a parent to get off the phone; slumped in the grass...
View ArticleReboot to Write: Oust Overwhelm Part 3
We’ve been staring at the many-tentacled beast named Overwhelm this week; we’ve talked about the way it adds stress, steals time to write, and causes you to believe falsehoods such as: you have no...
View ArticleWrite to Connect
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block...
View ArticleRadical Redirection: Preserve Your Creative Energy
When I was a kid, I lived with the constant refrain of my father’s voice saying, “Turn off the lights!” What can I say, I liked a bright room. His persistence worked, though. Eventually, I internalized...
View ArticleAll Writers Are Brave | Guest-Blog by Jen Violi
All of the writers are brave. Like red wine down the front of a white dress, this sentence spilled into my head last week, as I strolled, seaside. On Wednesday afternoon, I wandered in the sunshine and...
View ArticleInvest in Yourself
Perhaps the most fascinating (and sometimes exhausting) conversation to come about as a result of the ease of self-publishing is this one: who should be allowed to publish, and worse, who should be...
View ArticleMy Life is Now
This is a guest-post by the talented Tomi L. Wiley, whose novel you WILL get to read because her friends simply won’t let this much talent stay hidden. My parents entertained often when I was a little...
View ArticleDo Nothing This Summer
From Mom.me: In the last week of my son’s first-grade school year, my fellow parents discussed an impressive array of summer plans: science camps, sports camps, camping trips, art co-ops, horseback...
View ArticleWeek in Review
I haven’t had time to blog regularly, so I’m going to bring you a recap instead. Tomorrow is Women in Red’s official launch party at BookSmart of Morgan Hill, 80 E. 2nd Street. 2pm. I hope you can...
View ArticleMake a Practice of Your Writing
As most of you know, I started writing a book about persistence a couple of years ago; well, really, I started writing the journal entries that would become the blog posts that would inspire the book I...
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