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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
I’ve seen a lot of folks sharing online, some I know, some I just follow, about starting new jobs this month—which is AWESOME. What a way to start a new year, with a true fresh start. It’s like wiping the slate clean and the whole rest of the entire year is just full of possibilities …
