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Category Archives: Writing career
Walls, Doors and Windows
I am thinking about walls, doors and windows, and the rooms that many writers feel they are kept out of. The feeling is real. I have a lot of experience with walls, doors and windows. Besides the fact that I … Continue reading
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Tagged accolades, art and profits, character, fear, giving up, life of a writer, magic, praise; accolades; worth; words and value, priorities, promotion, public, renewal, self esteem, self-worth, spaciousness, working, writing life
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The Conversation
This is a conversation I have had quite often: “How do I get to do what you do?” I am asked. “What exactly do you mean?” How do I get a book published? How do I get paid to teach … Continue reading
On Writing and Balance
This is from a talk I gave at the Franklin County Arts Council Writers’ Guild Spring Retreat on balancing a creative life with a work life. The problem is never time. It’s urgency. How much urgency do you feel? How … Continue reading
Posted in comfort, Comparison, Competition, Completing a novel, creativity, Day by day, depression, emotion, Energy, fiction, fun with what we do, Grief, Process, silence, spaciousness, The Writer's Life, Uncategorized, Writing career
Tagged advice, character, creative life, fear, giving up, life of a writer, not writing, process, productivity, spaciousness, storytelling, writing life
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On Becoming a Writer
Once I’d made my mind up to it, becoming a writer was fairly simple. I committed myself to it. I studied it. I read a lot of books. I attended a lot of readings. I attended as many workshops as … Continue reading
Posted in comfort, Comparison, Competition, Completing a novel, creativity, Day by day, Decisions, editors, emotion, failure, fiction, marketing, Play, privacy, Publishing, Self-worth, Starting a new work, Starting over, success, The market, Uncategorized, what artists need, Writing career
Tagged art and profits, creative life, dread, giving up, life of a writer, literary world, not writing, process, productivity, promotion, public, self esteem, success
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Work
I think there are three ways of earning money in this world. One is to rent out your body (labor), another is to rent out the space between your ears (desk jobs mostly), and the third is to have money … Continue reading
The Value of Play
Dear Nancy Your pre-writing walks along the river sound glorious, and so does your description of your childhood “moodling” time in the woods. As a child, I also walked in the woods. It was a great solace to me, and … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Completing a novel, creativity, Day by day, fantasy, fiction, fun with what we do, Gratitude, happiness, Journaling, marketing, Play, posterity, Process, Self-worth, The Writer's Life, violence, Visibilty, Writing career
Tagged art and profits, creative life, life of a writer, literary world, not writing, physical world, praise; accolades; worth; words and value, process, productivity, promotion, self-worth, success, working, writing life
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Our Materials
Dear Karen, A few years ago during a time in which I was feeling badly about my writing, and wondering if I wanted to continue, I watched a PBS show about a group of people saving some wetlands in Florida. … Continue reading
“Harder Than You Think is a Beautiful Thing”
Dear Karen, I love your last letter. I love the idea of an “oversoul,” a term I have never heard before, and I agree wholeheartedly that we must be grateful for our own creative work and the creative work of … Continue reading
Posted in Community; Genorosity, Comparison, Competition, creativity, Day by day, Decisions, Energy, fun with what we do, Gratitude, Magic, Process, Publishing, Self-worth, spaciousness, The Writer's Life, Uncategorized, Writing career
Tagged creative life, giving up, life of a writer, literary world, magic, self-worth, success, writing life
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Amazon and Hatchette
Dear Karen – I feel raw and tender, like I will burst at one more piece of sad news. Upheaval. Wars. Bombs. Animals and people being tortured and hurt. Children killed. Mass murder. Rape. Suicide. Trees being cut down and … Continue reading
