Pencil Box for the Soul
By Polly Campbell I’ve spent most of the morning trying not to write an essay about a family tradition. It’s first on my To Do List. The deadline is a week away, which, for someone who over-ponders just about everything, is not long. I sat down with the intent to knock it out, get’er done,
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
You definitely have to look at the publishing process as an industry and a business at some point even though you may be largely focused on the creative aspect of doing the work of writing.
The Recovering Creative
In this stuck/unstuck: on being ashamed, and how it connects to writing. Meredith: Shame is kind of sticky – as a concept and a something that we live with in our lives. The more we try to shake it, the more we’re reminded of it, and how we feel it, and that that we don’t
Pencil Box for the Soul
by Brette SemberThe author of more than 40 books on never giving up, and trusting her instincts. I’ve been a writer for almost fifteen years, but before that I was a lawyer. Sometimes, I compare where I started to where I am now and I am amazed. I’ve just released my latest project, an ebook
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The writer talks about not running away, acting “as if’’ and letting the world in.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
And, honestly, I don’t think of my novels as my children in any way.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
I’m not frightened of what is inside me…. I’m frightened that I won’t be able to get it out in a way that will affect people.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
I think it’s really important that as writers we not take ourselves too seriously, not take on that mantle of importance and mystery because the narrative of life also tells us that “pride goeth before a fall.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The author and beloved professor discusses how “to write” is a verb (and not an identity), the overwhelming versus the manageable, and what chaos has the ability to deliver.
The Recovering Creative
This issue of stuck/unstuck was inspired by my re-listening to a book by Eckhart Tolle. This is the email I sent to Alisa Bowman, asking if she might reflect: I was I was recently listening to Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth for the second time, and heard him say (paraphrasing) not to try to get
The Recovering Creative
In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you’ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with
The Recovering Creative
The subject of this article, by Julie Bosman, in the New York Times: Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking made me itchy and anxious—particularly this quote: “Everybody’s doing a little more,” said Mr. [Lee] Child (a British author), who is published by Delacorte Press, part of Random House. “It