April Bosshard 12/21/25 April Bosshard 12/21/25

🕯️Light in the Dark: Solstice Blessings + Poetry 🌟

“We must risk delight,” says Jack Gilbert in his poem, A Brief for the Defense, a poem that explores the paradox of the human condition, with its balance of light and dark, sorrow and joy.

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 10/30/25 April Bosshard 10/30/25

The Spirit of Aloha 🌴🌞

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 1/31/25 April Bosshard 1/31/25

The Stories You Choose to Live, Read, and Write 📚

We are all living stories. Stories are all around us and working through us. We make stories. Our lives are stories. Paying attention to the stories we’re choosing to live can offer insights into the choices we’re making now or could make later.

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.

April Bosshard 2/29/24 April Bosshard 2/29/24

Are You a Lonely Writer? 🐈

Writers like being alone, undisturbed, so they can focus. They're protective of their solitude and rarely identify with being lonely, in part because their imaginations are wildly populated with intriguing thoughts, characters, and dramatic situations with the potential to become stories. But when does creative solitude cross over into loneliness?

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.

8/29/20 8/29/20

Your ARE a talented Writer!

I would bet that someone, at some point in the past, maybe when you were quite young, once pronounced you “talented.” This was probably after you’d created something spontaneously in a spirit of enthusiasm, inspiration, or joy.

2/27/20 2/27/20

Story and the Pursuit of Transcendence

hy do we write? Why do we read? I ask these two questions often—in my courses, retreats, and even the book I’m working on right now.With reading, answers come down to understanding ourselves and the world, as well as knowing more and feeling more, including feeling less alone.

6/30/19 6/30/19

When Inspiration Stalls

A client wrote to me not long ago to stay that her inspiration had stalled. It was both a statement and a lament. Writers tend to be preoccupied with the notion of inspiration--its presence or absence, its ease or struggle.

1/30/19 1/30/19

Time, the Moon, and Mary Oliver

As I watch the first month of the new year end, I am considering my relationship to time. Most days, it isn’t a good one. To my mind, each day begins so full of potential and then, by day’s end, that potential seems to have frittered away.

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.

5/31/18 5/31/18

Baguettes and Books

Paris has long been a mecca for literary and visual artists. Expat writers such Hemingway and Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein flocked to Paris in the 20's and inspired future generations to follow in their footsteps.

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.

character • character development • conflict • courage • creativity • drafting • goals • gratitude • inspiration • motivation • outlining • productivity • readers • resistance • revision • scenes • story • structure • success • talent • time • travel • uncertainty • writing process