creativity

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

2017-01-232021-10-29

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

2016-01-102021-10-29

One day spent chaperoning debate nerds. Two insights about writing fiction.

A Room Of Your Own, Goals, On writing

I say nerds admiringly. After all, I was one of them back in highschool when I regularly skipped other classes to work on my debate cases. Am one of them, ... Read more

2015-10-202021-10-29

Skipping class

Nostalgia

I’m not sure how it started, exactly. One day I must have been walking to school and instead of turning left toward the tall gray concrete building, climbing the stairs ... Read more

2015-08-032021-10-29

Washing the dishes

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

Just like the themes we are threading in our stories, these topics about the creative life resurface again and again. I’ve written many times before about focus, about staying in ... Read more

2015-07-142021-10-29

Nostalgia is a funny thing.

Nostalgia, On writing

Summer is ripe for nostalgia. As children, upon the arrival of summer, we become suddenly free to choose. Choose our own books (in my case by the armload taken from ... Read more

2015-07-072021-10-29

A defense of prompts, an opportunity, and a goldfish

On writing, Prompts

The other day I may have bought a few books at the Half-Priced Books 50% off sale. While the checker was scanning each book (took a while), one book (John ... Read more

2015-06-272021-10-29

Get out of your comfort zone

A Room Of Your Own, On writing, Yoga

This is easier said than done, yet this is the message I’m hearing loud and clear. A message without pretense or subtlety. Let me explain what I mean, and also ... Read more

2015-06-242021-10-29

A celebration of the pause.

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

I can be an intensely goal-oriented person, and mostly this has served me well. I wrote a semi-autobiographical novella in part about resiliency, or at least that was the seed. ... Read more