As you gear up to start a new writing routine and set new goals (or recommit to a routine and goals) for your writing this year, I want to share my manifesto for staying the course with your writing this year. Starting new writing projects can be thrilling and...
The biggest epiphany I had about my writing in the last year is that there is nothing special about my story. This sounds like a terrible epiphany, I realize! But it was so liberating. Let me explain.The message that my story isn’t special landed the hardest the day I...
Does Writing Need to be Hard? “To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.” Arne Garborg As writers, I think we all have times when our call to be a writer, that song in our hearts, gets drummed out. We...
For several years after my first book came out, I didn’t write and I’d sometimes wonder in those years, Am I still a writer?My answer then was a firm no, because I believed the maxim, “Writers write.”The logic of that phrase is that, if I’m doing the act of writing...
