Comments on: Money, Spaciousness, Deadlines and Bathtubs

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:35:42 +0000

Hi Jennifer – Your message makes me so happy because I wish I’d had this information, or at least this possibility as a model of a writing life, when I was starting out. It’s taken me years to figure it out and I still feel a little wobbly about taking time off.

Thank you also for your best wishes for my next writing project. I wish you and your books the best as well. Nancy

By: Jennifer Noel

Jennifer Noel — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:25:44 +0000

Nancy,
I’ve been following your blog and really appreciate your writings and observations. This piece in particular is very helpful — it’s like a message from a future station I might visit in my own life. I’ve always fantasized the same way about the perfect writing life, the perfect setting, etc. I have not yet begun regular publishing, though, so I need this type of information. Thank you. And best of luck to you with the next book!
Jennie

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 13:13:11 +0000

Hi Julie – Thanks for reaching out. I struggled with simply taking time off for years, as I wrote here. Only recently am I understanding that I need and deserve rest time, and that this is a part of my creative life. There is a lot of advice about how to get through writer’s block but so little about how what we call writer’s block might actually be refilling the well.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 13:00:58 +0000

Thanks for being one of the most honest people I know. I have been dealing with writer’s block and depression for about a year. In the meantime I journal and read good books and watch way too .much TV.
Thanks for reminding me to write for myself. I think I am about ready to get back I. the bathtub with some characters I love.