April Bosshard 1/31/26 April Bosshard 1/31/26

Facing Failure and Rejection ⛔

Facing failure and rejection is a big part of a writer’s life, and they’re both hard to talk about.

April Bosshard 11/30/25 April Bosshard 11/30/25

Thinking on the Page 📄 ✍️ 🤔

Some of us spend more time thinking about our writing projects than actually writing them. While thinking about our projects is an important part of creativity, it never yields the same results as thinking with our pens on the page.

April Bosshard 8/26/25 April Bosshard 8/26/25

Formula One Zen Story Moment 🏎️🧘‍♂️

It wasn’t so much the film itself but rather the movie-going event that drew me…

April Bosshard 7/26/25 April Bosshard 7/26/25

I left my 💜 in Park City, UT 🐝

Everyone was part of one connected community and many new friendships were forged.

April Bosshard 10/29/24 April Bosshard 10/29/24

Flexibility & Fortitude 👊✌️

Persistence and perseverance come up a lot when it comes to writing and creativity, but lately I'm considering the word “fortitude,” which means having courage in the face of adversity. It points to a state of mental and emotional strength that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage--the root of which is coeur, meaning “heart” in French.

April Bosshard 9/30/24 April Bosshard 9/30/24

An Appreciation for Lulls 🐛

A lull, please. This strange yet soothing word dates back to Middle English and relates to the Latin, lallare, which means to sing to sleep, and the Swedish lulla, as in lullaby. Today we take it to mean a period of rest or soothing, or a period of reduced activity, or, nautically speaking, a period without waves or wind. I'm ready for a period like this. Time to read, think, write, reflect.

April Bosshard 8/31/24 April Bosshard 8/31/24

Your Writing Vows 💍🖋️

Have you ever made vows to your writing? Vows are different from promises, which depend on future fulfillment. Promises always come later. Vows take place in the here and now, they are expected to be embodied, to be lived out, “from this day forward.” A future is implied here as well, but the devotional action starts now.

April Bosshard 7/31/24 April Bosshard 7/31/24

Community, Productivity, Renewal

I believe in community spaces and community time. And I believe that when you devote time and space to communities, especially creative ones, several things are possible: individual and group productivity; individual and group healing; individual and group change.

11/30/21 11/30/21

How it Feels to Finish a Project

You have a ton of tasks to tend to when it comes to crafting your stories, and writing scenes is one of them. What is a scene?

11/20/20 11/20/20

11 Things Every Writer Needs to Remember

It's easy to forget important truths about yourself and your writing. Today, I'd like to remind you...1) You're allowed to write about whatever you want.

6/28/20 6/28/20

Choice, Change, and Conflict

In the midst of all the changes in the world, we are invited to make some new choices—collectively and individually.

11/28/18 11/28/18

What Do You Owe Your Readers?

In a word: Everything. Reading might be the single most intimate act you will experience with a stranger.

9/27/18 9/27/18

The Most Important Ten Minutes of Your Day

Are you writing? It's hard to start, isn't it? We make such a fuss about starting, especially on those things most important to us. The things with stakes attached. And who doesn't attach pretty high stakes to chosen dreams? Such as writing.

6/25/18 6/25/18

Staying the Course

Earlier this month I had the good fortune to be a guest on a friend’s sailboat for ten days. Up until then I’d only ever spent a day or half day on a sailboat and hadn't needed to do much but sit back and enjoy the ride.

1/30/18 1/30/18

Chaos and Order

By the end of January most of us are either hitting a stride when it comes to moving toward goals or else we’ve abandoned them completely. The latter can leave some of us disillusioned and disoriented, and simply trying to keep our heads above water as the river of life carries us relentlessly forward. Often, we give in to the external momentum of demands and distractions (especially after a month of trials and failures) and our once hope-filled creative goals get washed away.

6/29/17 6/29/17

Inviting Inspiration

As creators, we pay a lot of lip service to inspiration, but what does it really mean to be inspired? And how do we go about getting into that state? Lately, I’ve been thinking about the nature of creativity and inspiration and the connection between the two.

4/12/17 4/12/17

The Uncertainty of Writing

Lately I’ve been dipping into Pema Chodron’s book Comfortable with Uncertainty (Shambhala, 2002). I’m at an uncertain point in my life and needing reminders to breathe deeply, face my fears, and accept that everything is impermanent. I’m reminded that all of this is good advice for the writing life as well. After all, what’s more uncertain than the writer’s life?

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