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What Do You Owe Your Readers?
In a word: Everything. Reading might be the single most intimate act you will experience with a stranger.
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.
Writing and Creative Depression
Depression may seem like a dark topic during the summer, but I’ve noticed it can arise anytime of year, regardless of the circumstances. Sometimes it’s good to take a peek at the dark stuff when we have a lot of access to the light.
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.
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.
Abundance, Gratitude, and Writing
Have you ever noticed how abundance can build up momentum in your life so that good things seem to create more good things? Then all of a sudden abundance takes a step back, seems to drain away or run into hiding? In both cases gratitude is the key.
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.
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- AI
- authenticity
- change
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- character development
- commitment
- community
- comparison
- conferences
- conflict
- courage
- creative depression
- creativity
- darkness
- death
- devotion
- discipline
- drafting
- dreams
- envy
- failure
- fear
- flexibility
- fortitude
- goals
- gratitude
- inspiration
- light
- loneliness
- love
- magic
- motivation
- nature
- outlining
- pleasure
- plot
- poetry
- politics
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