How to Create a Writing Practice (Even When It’s No Fun)
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Caught in the Eddies
Most of our writing careers tend to be that long, lazy float, bobbing along doing our thing, hopefully mostly enjoying…
The Longer You Last, the Better It Gets
Much of the path toward mastering this craft we love as authors involves trial-and-error, stumbling and sometimes falling and learning…
Writing Insights from the Drawing Board
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George Michael Had It All Figured Out
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Don’t Suffer for Your Art
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Embrace the Suck
Sometimes we may start a project knowing exactly what we want to say and how to say it, and the…
The Painful Anxiety of Playing Favorites
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Measure Your Success by What You’re Doing, Not What You Want to Do
So often we’re busy measuring our lives and our success by the lacks–what we haven’t accomplished yet, our goals that…
Norman Lear and Your Artistic Legacy
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