About Your Writing: The Third Thing
If you wish you could forget something, if it won’t go away after years, it’s because there’s story material there calling out to you.
Category Archives: About Your Writing
About Your Writing: Tracking Your Ending
Unlike a beginning, which can be anything, we want an ending that can only be one singular thing.
About Your Writing: Using Questions as Keys
Those questions are a part of you as much as the pain and the longing.
About Your Writing: Art Heals
This is when you want to follow what the story is asking of you instead of what you are asking of it.
About Your Writing: Love the Flaw
Flaws create conflict. “Wants” create conflict. And conflict powers stories.
About Your Writing: Your Bicycle
As much as many of us are afraid of changing, the most important events of our lives are always around a great change—getting married, having a baby, the death of a loved one.
About Your Writing: Restrictions
Limitations are your ally. The challenge is finding them and seeing them.
ABOUT YOUR WRITING: Show Up
Take one step, today’s step, then leave it. Tomorrow you take another step. Whether you feel like it or not. Whether you have focus or not. Whether you feel like a fraud or not. Just take the step.
About Your Writing: Your One Wild and Precious Life
John Prine will likely be forgotten someday, as will the poet Mary Oliver, but that won’t change the fact that they were able to spend their lives making art and participating in the world in that slowed-down, deep, and full way. And those of us who are not famous? We get that life too, if it’s what we want.
