“My voice is not static; it changes and shifts with the experiences of my life. In some ways I am still finding it.”
The Recovering Creative
The Recovering Creative
Listen. Internal guidance comes.
The Recovering Creative
I have mistakenly labeled my way of telling a story as not acceptable because it originated inside me.
Pencil Box for the Soul, The Recovering Creative
Sending it—and myself—out into the world.
The Recovering Creative
“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.”
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“I guess I had to unlearn the idea that I was not smart enough to write. I had to choose to ignore my ideas about myself and my own abilities and just write anyway.”
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“The other kind of seduction—the one you describe as “being someone”—I can understand on a more personal level. Certainly when I was many drafts in on The Beast Is an Animal, I thought: If I can only get this novel published, then my life will be different.”
Pencil Box for the Soul
“We can’t patiently wait and hope the Muse will grace us with her presence. You have to chase her down and fight, sometimes quite hard, to keep her nearby.”
Pencil Box for the Soul
In writing, there is much discussion of “the muse.” Who is it? Do we wait for him/her/it to appear, or go to work anyway?
The Recovering Creative
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
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Faith in self has to be protected and nurtured like a fire in the rain…
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Jacobson’s twenty years of research and training with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, DEA, US Marshals Service, SWAT, NYPD, Scotland Yard, and the US military bring unparalleled realism to his stories and characters.