Okay, are you ready? I'm about to reveal it all. The one and only thing you need to do to be a writer, that will guarantee you success on some level. And that is… Drum roll, please…. The one thing you need to do to be a successful writer is to write. You need to […]
(Note: I was going to call them damn words in the headline, because sometimes the words feel like they need cursing. But then I censored myself, because this is going out in my newsletter, and I don't want to offend people. Do words like damn offend people? I don't know. You tell me. I wouldn't […]
Yeah, sometimes I have a one-track mind. Last week I wrote about some slightly different regular writing practices (beyond the usual round-ups of meditating and all the other things we try to do regularly and fail at). And now here I am again, with the word practice in the title of the post. At […]
"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." Robert Collier The importance of getting clear We're all well-versed in goal-setting, becoming certain about what we want, and visualizing our outcomes. Knowing what you want is a no-brainer, because how can you get "there" if you […]
Funny story: I've had this blog post in mind for the last few days. And then when it was time for me to sit down and write it, my blog host, Typepad, had two DOS (denial of service–I looked it up) attacks, on Thursday night and Friday morning. So I had to give up the […]
A couple weeks ago, I met another writer friend for lunch. She rushed in, late, and apologized. "I'm just so busy these days, you know? There's just never enough time for everything." I nodded, agreeing. But later I realized that the sentiments we exchanged about writing didn't ring true. Instead, it felt like we were […]
Friday. I felt like crap. My stomach ached and rumbled and just didn't feel right. Outside, snow fell, the second round of our first big snowstorm in five years. (People always think we get a ton of snow here but we just don't.) Inside, my two-year-old grandson roamed about the house doing what toddlers […]
I was out of town last week and I didn't do any writing. (Yes, you read blog posts while I was gone. I had them scheduled ahead of time.) I didn't even have my computer with me, which was shocking even to me. I never go anywhere without my computer (except to France, but I […]
My church is currently featuring a series on foundational spiritual practices and as I listened to our minister a couple of Sundays ago, I started thinking (as always) about writing. What, I wondered, would I consider to be foundational writing practices? I pondered and made notes on this for a few days and this blog […]
Please welcome guest poster Jessica Baverstock to the blog this morning and read her wise words on getting a lot of writing done. by Jessica Baverstock I'm sure just about all of us have witnessed the Tortured Writer Syndrome. Perhaps we've even experienced it personally. The syndrome begins with a bit of writer's block, some […]
