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It’s all water under the bridge – uh, no it’s not
I posted something on social media last week about a difficult moment I had with a family member recently, a moment that brought up old fears, stories and patterns that I’d been working on dismantling for so long. The post got responses from people who expressed similar feelings of holding too...
How to turn your annoying day job into a creative jackpot
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about how to make time for your writing even with a day job. And last week I wrote about how you don’t need endless amounts of time to be a professional writer (read: you can totally rock your writing career if the day job is still a thing). Today, I want to...
The simple math that blew my mind
If you’re a writer and you haven’t read Steven Pressfield’s books about writing, stop reading this right now, open a new tab, and order them. I mean it. (But come on back after you do!) All kidding aside, Pressfield is a genius—a prolific fiction and nonfiction writer who has been doing the work...
How to stop letting fear stop you – and the best essential oils to conquer fear
There are so many things we can allow to become barriers to creativity. We’ve talked about a lot of them here: procrastination, lack of confidence, the old false stories we tell ourselves about what we can or can’t do, writer’s block (also known as the muse taking an unplanned vacation). But...
The muse has left the building…and how to get her to come back
Most of us as creatives had experienced those stretches of time when the muse appears to have left the building. And we’re not really sure how to get her back. It's really common for writers who feel like they have lost their inspiration to be creatively blocked, a term that Julia Cameron coined...
Launch day for Gone But Not Furgotten – and the real story about Cass
It's launch day! I'm so excited that Gone But Not Furgotten is out in the world. I hope you all love it. This book is really special to me. I mean, they're all special to me, but in this one I got to spend extra time with one of my favorite supporting characters, Maddie’s Zen friend Cass. I love...
How to write even with a pesky day job
One of the biggest complaints I hear from writers—in all levels of their career—is time. Not enough of it, specifically. I’ve been thinking a lot about time lately. How to maximize it, how to manage it better, how not to let it slip away. We’ve all heard the tough love—how we all get the same 24...
Why mindset is the most important writing tool
I love to talk about writing tools. I’ve always been an office supply junkie, for one thing, so anytime I can buy new notebooks, life is good. And when I found Scrivener, well, my mind was blown! But guess what—none of these are the tools that are going to make the most difference in your career. ...
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