“My voice is not static; it changes and shifts with the experiences of my life. In some ways I am still finding it.”

Writing voice is not static

Listen. Internal guidance comes.

On Writing: I get lost. I recover.

I have mistakenly labeled my way of telling a story as not acceptable because it originated inside me.

Inner writing journey — stop trying to control it

Sending it—and myself—out into the world.

Seeing and being seen: a meditation for writers

“ditation and psychotherapy became my two strongest modes of inner work. It was obvious to me that being a writer and author did not make me feel like somebody.”

Judith Handelsman Smith: A spiritual narrative for writers

Not perfectly. But honestly. Authentically.

Be there for the writer inside you

Jennifer Haigh, New York Times Best Selling author Talks about: doubt Meredith: In life there are choices we have to make that, in hindsight, don’t seem like choices at all. We might say that the situation found us, or the decision made itself. But at the time we worried, were anxious, filled with doubt because

stuck/unstuck: Jennifer Haigh: writing through doubt

Just like I can’t control what other people do, sometimes I can’t control which direction my writing is headed. I feel so powerless, no—impotent. Though I shouldn’t. Because I have no business trying to control. Just like living beings, my words have their own footprints and fingerprints. If I respect that then my words, once

The Surrendered Writer vs The Controlling Writer

I await ideas and emotions and the words that hold them. I follow my instincts.

A writer’s meditation