Create, Market, Relationships, Think

by | Oct 26, 2022 | Writing

I like to divide my creative life into four domains: creativity, marketing, developing relationships, and thinking. Usually, in a given week, my percentages look like this: Create: 10%Marketing: 30%Relationships: 5%Thinking: 55% (Unfortunately, by Marketing, I am...

Vulnerability

by | Oct 25, 2022 | Health, Writing

One retrospective benefit of my progressive hip arthritis and the first few weeks of my subsequent hip replacement? It was a good reminder of what it felt like to be physically vulnerable—something I haven’t had to contend with since my “being-bullied-days” of junior...
The Keyboard: A Writer’s Tool

The Keyboard: A Writer’s Tool

by | Oct 24, 2022 | Writing

Tools matter. Tools matter for writing. And one of the most important writing tools? The keyboard. A 50,000-word novel, if you consider spacing, editing and rewriting requires at least one-million keystrokes. That’s a lot of finger-work! For example, I recently...

Writing’s False Summit

by | Oct 22, 2022 | Writing

In mountain climbing, are false summits. These are the ridges that seem to rise out of nowhere at the end of the climb which the climber falsely believes to be the actual summit, only to be disappointed when. after reaching it, to realize the hard part—the crux of the...