For me, the year 2019 kinda sucked. Little did I know what the next two years would bring, with all of the horrors of COVID. But at the time, I thought 2019 was the worst. It started hopeful, as most years do. I was managing a huge first-time project at work and anticipating a big […]
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Over the weekend my business partner Karen and I hosted Eula Biss for a craft seminar that she gave for our clients. If you don’t know Eula Biss, she’s a giant in the literary and writing community—she’s an essayist and an author who has written several New York Times best sellers. Her most recent book
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling a little helpless and a little hopeless with all the news lately. Especially after the recent shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. There was also a mass shooting at the beginning of April where I live in Sacramento. I feel helpless because I wonder what I can
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A few weeks ago I wrote about hard work paying off, and used one of my clients as an example because she had recently signed with a literary agent to represent the memoir that she worked on with me. Well today I have another client to brag about: Susannah Q. Pratt whose book, More or
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Recently I read the book The Genius Zone by Gay Hendricks (he’s also the author of another book I love called The Big Leap). It’s all about figuring out how to spend the most time in your life doing only the thing that is your true creative genius. If that sounds like a lofty goal,
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It’s been a rough couple of weeks for me over here because, well, we had covid. It finally hit us. Jeremy got it first from work and then brought it home to me. Honestly, I’m surprised we didn’t get it sooner. And it’s not even that I care that we got IT. It’s more that
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Recently I saw someone post on Instagram: Asking for what you want is some powerful magic. The sentiment was along the lines of, nothing in life is ever handed to you. You must struggle and toil to get what you want. And you should never ask for what you want, because you don’t deserve it
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You know what I think one of the hardest things about this creative life is? The daily slog. You know what I mean by that, right? It’s the day-in-day-out, stay the course, taking one small action every day, sometimes doing the same things over and over for days and weeks on end. But the monotony
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A few months ago I started weight training as my regular workout, four times a week. I’ll be honest and say that I’ve been resistant to lifting weights FOR YEARS. I found yoga and loved it, and it worked for me, and I felt like that was good enough. But after three-plus years of chronic
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Today I talked to one of my writer/business friends who was telling me about how she feels like she’s in a groove with her writing routine for the first time in a long time. She gets up every day at 5 a.m., gets to her writing desk and computer by 5:30 and writes until 8:30.
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