This morning when I got up at my usual early hour (made even earlier this week with the time switch), I had plans to work on the rewrite of my novel. Because that’s what I do when I get up early to write. It is my sacred time, devoted only to writing fiction. (Except for […]
Yes, you read that headline correctly. I am going to set about telling you why writing more is easier than writing less. KEEP READING. I know you were about to click away when you read that writing more bit. But stick with me. You can throw tomatoes at the end if you like, but at […]
Over the last month or so, I've gone back to doing Morning Pages. I started mid-December and have been picking up steam ever since. I've been writing so much in my journal that I began a system of indexing it so I could keep track of everything. Ideas pour from my pen. I figure things […]
My brain looks like these Christmas lights some mornings. Another title for this post might be Why You Need a Routine. Or more to the point, why I need one. Here's the setup: A morning in December. After a busy weekend of Christmas parties (we survived hub's resurrected Christmas office gala!) and work deadlines (yes, […]
I'm writing this post for me as much as for you. Pay attention, me. How do you schedule your writing? (I'm talking passion projects here. For those of us who do writing for a living, we write all day, sometimes leaving little time for the work we love. But everyone has challenges fitting their writing […]
I know. Meditation. Gag me. We're writers. Our heads are full of words and images. Our heads are supposed to be full of words and images so that we can transfer them to the page. But. The transferring to the page is often the tricky part. The place where we get hung up. Because we […]
On Monday, this was my morning: I got out of bed feeling cranky and negative. Got my coffee and went to my office, as usual. The computer beckoned, so I went right to it and started in on email. Wasn't time for anything else. I didn't feel like walking. So I didn't. The rest of […]
