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Know Yourself to Motivate Yourself

Know Yourself to Motivate Yourself

We all need a loving little push now and then. Can we be both the pusher and the pushee? Can we work with our own strengths and weaknesses?

Trusting the Process

Trusting the Process

Hustling to seize the bits of character and dialogue and narrative before they disappear makes me anxious. I can feel it. Who wants to wake up to that?

Listen to Your Work

Listen to Your Work

Can we get quiet enough to hear the still small voice of the houseplant? Or of our undernourished muse? Of our not-yet-ready creative work?

Rest and Downtime – Two Creative Tools

Rest and Downtime – Two Creative Tools

Support your creativity with rest and downtime. Consider the possibility that you have some opportunities right now to add more rest and downtime to your life, perhaps in small increments.

Halfway Through Nanowrimo

Halfway Through Nanowrimo

I don’t need to write in a straight line. I can draft a chapter from later in the sequence, with some confidence that it won’t all be headed for the compost heap.

Use Your Words Your Way

Use Your Words Your Way

Just like parents comparing themselves to Instagram-perfect mommy bloggers, writers do themselves harm comparing themselves to the stars-du-jour in their genre.