I’m currently re-reading Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind for a class I am teaching, and it has reminded me of this short inspirational video based on his book Drive: [vimeo=8480171] Note: The embed code has been glitchy, so if you can’t see the video above, click here. This morning I realized that Pink’s two …
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ~Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective This post is for a writer friend who …
It’s Bookmarkable Friday Saturday! As someone who does creative work, how do you handle inevitable periods of dejection? Write your way through it? Ignore it until it goes away? Re-visit your goals? Focus on gratitude? Sit with the feeling in a mindful way? Take some planned time off (different from giving up in exasperation)? Seek …
I am honored today to feature an interview with Kelsey Ketch, whose historical young adult novel Death’s Island is represented by Bree Ogden of Martin Literary Management. Kelsey is as generous as she is talented, and I know that her commitment to a writing life will inspire others to finish—or start—whatever work of passion is knocking at your heart’s door.
Whether you prefer the idea of a genius with time management issues or a zinn that can sometimes wreak havoc with our minds, the important point is that we need only to do our part, to show up. Or, in Sage Cohen’s words, to “honor and cultivate the balance and delight of your existence here on Earth.”