I don’t plan to do this often, but today I’m posting the same thing on both of my blogs, because these intriguing resources on procrastination and motivation—two shared by a friend on Facebook (thank you, Rebecca), one I’ve mentioned before, and one golden oldie from 2005—apply so well both to gifted intensity and to writing/writers. …
The spring semester has begun for my husband and son, I don’t teach until this afternoon, and I am alone in the house for the first time in five weeks. Even as I type these words, I feel a twinge of guilt, hoping that if my family reads this post, they don’t think I didn’t …
The blog is back! After a couple of months off and thinking long and hard about whether to alternate posts on Everyday Intensity between intensity/giftedness topics and writing topics, I’ve decided to start writing here again, for the very reason I began this blog in the first place: To help me to be a better …
I miss my writing buddy. Katie and I usually get together every month at a donut shop called Cranky Al’s. We share excerpts from what we are working on, talk about our plans for the future (near and far), and, most importantly, support each other unconditionally and non-competitively in ways that continue to surprise me. …
Today I updated my reading lists (on the right side of the blog), and I want to share a book I am now reading: The Quickening, by Michelle Hoover. Ever since I began working on the book that only I can write, I have been on the lookout for other works that are based on …