Category Archives: Writing

Listen To Your Longings

Choose your tools carefully but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing-table. Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down The Bones Listen to your longings for they are trying to tell … Continue reading

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The Difference Between Talent and Skill…

Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training. You’ll naturally learn both concentration and endurance when you sit down every day at your desk and train yourself to focus on … Continue reading

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Morning Pages | Julia Cameron Live

In order to retrieve your creativity, you need to find it. I ask you to do this by an apparently pointless process I call the morning pages. Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first … Continue reading

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Put The Puppy Back On The Paper

Could it be that your mind is not a wayward child to be shouted at and locked under the stairs. Maybe it’s just a puppy you need to train. I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back … Continue reading

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How Cut and Paste Can Help Your Writing

My favourite part of any authors website is when they talk about their tools and writing process, so I hope you’ll forgive the occasional post here about how I made the book. One day in 2010… So there I was, … Continue reading

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Nearly there…

See the glamourous life of a nearly published author. Sitting in the car while the kids are swimming, listening to Seasick Steve and proofing the book jacket.

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