Suck It Up
There are some days when you just don’t want to. You can finish that sentence in any number of ways: you just don’t want to go to work, you just don’t want to cook, to clean. You just don’t want to visit your Aunt Tess who always bakes great cookies but smells like old olives [...]
It’s Complicated
Some people are in the habit of making simple things complicated. People who do this probably won’t recognize themselves in that sentence, however. For them, it’s just how things are. So are you one of these closet complicators? Answer these questions: Do you ever notice that, when someone says “it’s easy,” your first reaction is, [...]
They Can’t All Be Gems
Most people who don’t write all the time are afraid that, if they do write more, they’ll “empty the coffers” very quickly. The logic goes, if it is difficult to come up with something now then make what I come up with brilliant, I’ll have nothing left very soon if I try to write more.” [...]
Premature Judgement
Many writers judge their work too soon in the process. If you think your idea is silly before you’ve had a chance to really develop it, you’ve not given it or you a chance. If you think your idea is too dark, take a look at it. There’s something there begging to be expressed. If [...]
Sensual Writing
I know what you’re thinking, “Sensual. It’s going to be a column about sex.” I’m sorry to disappoint you. It’s going to be about the power of using your senses in your writing and in your preparation to write. We perceive the universe almost entirely through our senses and yet we often approach our writing [...]
Darkness Falls
You are a light and optimistic person. You decide to write something. When you are finished, you are horrified to discover you’ve written a dark, brooding, perhaps even violent piece. Where did that come from? After all, you are light. You are optimistic. Perhaps this writing thing is just too dangerous. Poppycock. We all have [...]
The Myth of the Silver Lining
I am an optimist. Many people say that what an optimist does is always “finding the silver lining in every cloud”, to find something good in every situation, no matter how dire. This has also been called Pollyanna, after the novel, at least one movie and character of the same name. The young girl in [...]
Powerful Problems
Many years ago, I took the est training. (Yes, I’m one of those people.) There was one thing they said in it that has stayed with me ever since. Lately I have begun to see it in a different way. The thing is this: Life is problems. If life is problems, then the way to [...]
Important Work
Recently, I was thinking about the phrase, “an important work” by “an important writer” and wondered if any of my stuff will ever be important. Then I realized it already is. So is yours. Nothing you write will have ever been said in quite the same way, with quite the same voice by any one [...]
The Habit of Creativity
In my post of yesterday, @MyWebGal (Deb Augur) mentioned a quote she loved, but didn’t know where she had heard it; “Creativity is not a gift. It’s a habit.” I liked it so much I decided to look it up. It is from Twyla Tharp. In her book The Creative Habit, she said, “Creativity is [...]
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