Writing life

Everybody has a backpack

Everybody Has a Backpack

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Overcoming Overthinking—Take the Leap

Overcoming Overthinking—Take the Leap

If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. “How do you feel about France?” The…
You Can Handle Rejection (And That's Good Because You'll Have To)

You Can Handle Rejection (And That’s Good Because You’ll Have To)

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Positive-training Your creative career

Positive-training Your Creative Career

Olympic skater Alysa Liu rejected the rigid regimen imposed on her by her father and others and created her own…
The Carrot and the Stick

The Carrot and the Stick

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What's the point of writing

What’s the Point?

One of the things that has been striking me lately is that regardless of your ideological or political beliefs, it…
The Glass Is Always Full

The Glass Is Always Full

This holiday that inspires reflection on what we are grateful for always makes me think of an exchange my husband…
Is fear the artist's foe or friend

Is Fear the Artist’s Foe—or Friend?

Fear is an unhealthy self-awareness where you’re so in your head, while simultaneously so minutely observing yourself from an external…
Should you write to the market?

Should You Write “to the Market”?

Knowing what you want in this business is one of the most important factors in creating a writing career that…
Tiffany Yates Martin

“Seeing Myself *Like* Myself Is Pretty Damn Good”

It’s always a little surprising when we hear that people we admire, or who have achieved success by standard metrics,…