During this Corona Virus hiaitus, many of us imagine we will achieve everything we've been putting off in our adult lives. Finally paint the bedroom. Start a to... Read More...
IF is something we think about - whether or not that IF happens. IF can be worry or hope, and it holds our attention. "If" and its time-sucking cousin "if only,... Read More...
The brain is paramount among writers. We love our smarts, right?
Recent research shows that our brains do not live 100% in our heads. The heart and the stoma... Read More...
If you're like me, you can walk into a room, and suddenly have no idea why you walked in there. Or you can be watching something or writing something, and hit a... Read More...
Are you interested? Are you paying attention.
Of course. Why?
Because the word MIGHT is mighty. It automatically awakens you, perks up your litt... Read More...
I wish I could find the drawing I once saw by Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale. In the drawing "the writer" was depicted as a slain deer in the w... Read More...
All the creativity tricks in the book can't help you write, if you can't get yourself to write. You've got a thing you really want to write. You're in love wi... Read More...
William Kenower, author of Fearless Writing and Editor-in-chief of Author magazine, was the keynote speaker at San Diego State University Writers' Conference wh... Read More...
When I'm not sure what to write, guess what, I write nothing. When I am visited by clarity, I drop whatever else I'm doing, and I write. With energy and excitem... Read More...
And they lived happily ever after...
Usually this sentiment is associated with romance, marriage to a prince and getting to live in a castle for the rest of ... Read More...