The more I write and pay attention to my own creative nervous system and mental health, the more I realize that stress and the outside world, including the emotional toll it takes, plays a large role in how much I write, what I write, and when I write. This week is a...
Writing to me is more than putting words on the page. When I sit down to tell stories, I’m writing from the heart, from worlds that I want to live in and explore (unicorns!), and often from my most sacred ideals and beliefs. It’s why I’m so focused...
As writers we can choose what we write and when we write. So it seems a bit odd that we would write something that triggers our mental health if we didn’t want to. And yet, that’s exactly what happens when life, publishing circumstances, or even the prose...
There’s a common thread that runs through the disappointment that comes with low sales or publisher and agent rejections. When you submit a proposal for a conference and it doesn’t get accepted or when you submit a resume for a job and you don’t get...
Maybe it’s a weekend or a vacation from work, either way you have your goal in mind and are excited to see what you can achieve. Or maybe it’s just a very ordinary day and you have a daily writing plan that…just never happens? Or there’s a...
One of the hardest parts of being an author is putting together a story that you are certain is amazing, offering it to the world and…nothing. Books that you expect to be flops may be successes, which isn’t a bad thing at all. But the reverse, those books...
