What’s Your Personal Story?
Many are struggling with anxiety, but stories have power in a crisis. Beyond the stories we write, there’s also the story we tell ourselves about our life.
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Writing in the Time of Coronanxiety
Everything in the news is currently all COVID-19 all the time. All that anxiety can make it hard to focus on our writing. What can we do to fix it?
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What Do You Do with Disappointment?
Disappointment is an unavoidable aspect of living, but how we react to the disappointment—or the failure to get what we want—can teach us about ourselves.
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Discovering What Matters: Editing and Your Life
What does the moving process have in common with the editing process? Both make us prioritize, purge, and question what matters.
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Reading Challenge: Overcome the Algorithms
If we fall into a reading rut, a reading challenge can help us expand our choices, so keeping track of what we read can be useful—for readers and writers.
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Writing and Publishing Are Full of Contradictions
Balance can be hard to find within the writing industry, especially as our publishing life is full of contradictions, leading to frustration and burnout.
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Happy New Year! Welcome to a Blank Page
The New Year can offer us an opportunity for making changes in our life, but for that we need a blank page on which we can create a new story for our life.
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What Authors or Books Did You Discover This Year?
As we wrap up 2019, let’s give a shout out to a book or author we’ve discovered this past year! Who’s a new favorite? Or what book did you discover by a new-to-you author?
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‘Tis the Season to Do Something Nice…for Yourself!
One of the best things we can do during this time of year is take care of ourselves too. We don’t want to forget our needs in the noise of so many others’ needs.
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The Best Reason to Blog — 2019 Edition
How can sharing our similar setbacks and struggles help us? We’re on common journeys, so we each know where others are coming from.
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