The Craft of Writing, The Writer's Life
It is so much more exhausting not to work than to work. If you procrastinate, you’ll feel more exhausted than if you’d created for hours. Never forget how tired not creating makes you feel. If you pursue a career in writing, there will always be a deadline to meet....
The Craft of Writing, The Writer's Life
Often you’re resistant to getting started. That resistance is just a thin veneer between you and your work but it feels like a concrete wall. Get up and crash right through it! Become a bull or a battering ram. Don’t let a film of resistance cost you decades. What...
The Craft of Writing, The Writer's Life
What is your process, your style, and your rhythm? Get clear in your own mind how you create. Then accept your way of working—or change it if it is not effective. Do you remember, in school, when the teacher could not be satisfied with you just showing up, but she had...
