Ramona Payne on working from home

Ramona M. Payne’s latest reflection fits perfectly with my own thoughts this summer and is just what I need today after a particularly challenging home-based working week. Head on over to her website to read her five easy rules for working and writing from home: Rule 1 – Don’t do anything during your at-home workday …

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Who do you think you are?

Part of my Summer Writing Reset has involved blog clean-up and sorting through posts for topics that I need to revisit. The following is updated from 2012. Also see my post on this topic at Psychology Today. Header photo credit: Ned Potter via CC BY 2.0 Who do you think you are? It seems a …

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Allowing ourselves to be seen

Following up on Monday’s post regarding perfectionism, this 2010 TEDx talk from Brené Brown on vulnerability and the courage to allow ourselves to be seen—and for our words to be read—seems particularly useful. “The only people who don’t experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection. No one wants to talk about it, and …

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The Myth of the Ideal Writing Time and Place

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“Perhaps the lesson is this — put aside the notion of an ideal time and place to exercise your craft. Just write wherever you are, whenever you can. If you have a routine, a sacred space or anything else that lends to your writing experience, good. But when you get down to it, writing is about putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, whenever, wherever you can.” ~ Victoria C. Slotto


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Why you don’t write (link to article by Laura Tong)

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Nothing I can write today could be better than Write to Done‘s editor Laura Tong‘s piece “How To Find the Courage To Become an Unstoppable Writer.” (From Laura’s bio: “Learning to say ‘no’ to the unimportant things to free up time to write is one of the key elements she learned to being a successful writer.”)

Why you don’t write.

Look, I know you’re struggling just to get your butt in the chair. Struggling to find the time in between work, family, chores and life, to write.

Struggling to stop answering emails or going on Facebook. Because before you know it, it’s 2 hours later and you haven’t written a single word.

But it goes deeper than that, doesn’t it?

You’re struggling daily with that little voice in your head. The one that keeps telling you that everything you want to tell, has already been written and told.

That whatever goes down on the page won’t be good enough. That you don’t know why you’re even bothering to try writing, let alone dream of making it a proper job. That you feel like you’re playing at writing.

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