So, we’ve taken the first step into a New Year, and everyone is trotting out their myriad Old Year Resolutions for a New Year polish before they spend another 365 days gathering cobwebs and dust on the mantelpiece.
The trouble with this whole mind set is that it’s self-defeating.
On one hand we’re going to lose weight, [...]
Today’s gift–and the last one in my pre-Christmas selection–is about creating memories as a family. What we do together, our traditions, the emotional shorthand we use with each other, these are the things we take with us from birth to death.
One of the fun things we do as a family is decorate the Christmas tree. [...]
What do you do when you’re at a point in your novel where you simply can’t seem to go ahead? Some people call it ‘writer’s block’. Some call it a myth. Whatever you call it, it’s horrifically frustrating.
There are all sorts of ways of dealing with it, but one that sometimes works for me is [...]
I came across a really great quote by Thomas Edison the other day.
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
It rang a bell with me. Opportunity is work. So why do we seem to think that it’s something magical, almost Zen-like, requiring us only to listen for [...]
Had a wonderful weekend with one of my critique partners brainstorming our current Works In Progress.
We spent the three days in a bach miles away from anyone we knew. No phone. No internet. No distractions–except for the Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning, and the Giant Book Sale at the local hall. But we won’t talk [...]
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