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...
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. ...
Most of us are carrying around stories that someone—a well-meaning family member or a friend whose opinion we really valued—told us at some point in our lives. The thing about those stories, though, is that they probably aren’t true—like mine. This is not a criticism of anyone’s family members or...
The C-word. We all want it. Some of us try to find it though books, classes, accomplishments. Many of us fake it at times. But I think it’s fair to say most of us struggle with it. Yep, you guessed it. Confidence. It’s a tough one, right? Especially in the world of art and creativity, where...
I have a dirty secret I’m going to share with you— I’m a huge procrastinator.I’ve been working on this for many years and while I’ve gotten better, I still haven’t completely kicked the habit to the curb yet.A great example of this is back in high school when I asked my math genius dad to help me...
How many of you have a morning ritual?I started and stopped mine a million times. After I did The Artist’s Way, I felt like I’d finally grasped it - finally “knew how” to journal. Morning pages taught me this. Three pages, every morning, right after you wake up. If you’re a creative type, chances...
When I was getting ready to declare my major in college, my parents asked me what I had decided. Of course, I’d known since I was probably seven years old that I wanted to be a writer, so of course my major would be English. (I know, I know, there’s fancier programs for writers out there, but I...
One of my biggest challenges in life, and writing, is this all-or-nothing mindset I somehow developed along the way. I could spend some time on where this came from, but that would probably be its own whole blog post. Suffice it to say, it’s probably related to the notion I’ve had since I was a...
