busywriter

2017-03-202021-10-29

Dear Procrastination, (Part 2)

A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration, Letters

Dear Procrastination, I’ve written to you before, but you didn’t reply. You look at me the way my grandmother used to when I asked a stupid question. I get it, ... Read more

2017-03-062021-10-29

What are you doing this week to make time? Me? I’m willing to change.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

Most weekday mornings I wake at four AM and get to work. I’ve even gotten better at writing on weekends, which I explained in an earlier post–to my surprise–proves harder ... Read more

2017-02-132021-10-29

Staring is necessary.

A Room Of Your Own, Memoir, On writing

My IB students are reading The Things They Carried now and just finished The Great Gatsby. The order in which you teach books brings to light different aspects of them. ... Read more

2017-01-232021-10-29

Don’t push it. That’s my advice this week. Happy writing!

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Goals, On writing

Much better this week. Not perfect, but better. I wrote six of seven days. Slowly, but that’s my pace right now. I mostly got to bed by nine on the ... Read more

2017-01-162021-10-29

An invitation to let go and burn, baby, burn.

A Room Of Your Own, Goals

Getting to sleep earlier proved harder than I thought for a few reasons this week. I’ve got a lot crammed into my weekdays and last week was an especially bloated ... Read more

2017-01-092021-10-29

Duh. Sleep. How could I neglect that?

A Room Of Your Own, Goals, Memoir, On writing

Except for Friday when I needed to wake early to be on a bus to a Speech Tournament by six, I woke at four and wrote every morning last week. ... Read more

2015-10-132021-10-29

A reminder to Make Time.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

Hello writer friends!By this time of year I’ve normally posted an anxiety fueled post about the start of the school year, the subtext of which is always HOW IN THE ... Read more

2015-05-122021-10-29

Wake before the sun? Are you kidding me?

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

At the moment, I am flying high and nothing is wrong in the universe. Why? Because it’s 5:30 in the morning, I haven’t even started my work day yet, and ... Read more