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Switching from Feedburner to MailChimp for blog subscriptions

March 26, 2013

Those of you who subscribe to blogs—thank you for supporting writers!—will notice a few changes in how some of your subscriptions are delivered, and this blog is no exception. With Google Reader’s closing up shop, the future of the popular RSS delivery and tracking service Feedburner is in doubt, and many bloggers are finding alternatives …

Writer, Who Are You?

March 18, 2013

More and more, I am realizing that I still have much to learn about who I am, who I am not, how it differs from who I want to be, and how all of that affects my writing. Self-knowledge, however, requires something harder and harder to come by these days: solitude. In one of his …

Erin Reel on Writing with Focus

March 12, 2013

“It may be a book that will change the course of my life… I have yet to discover a micro-chapter or 140 character status update that holds my attention or imagination.” ~ Erin Reel The following guest post by Erin Reel was first published in 2011 on my former blog site, and it is an …

Goal: Be Less Goal-Oriented

March 4, 2013

“Staying focused on our goals detracts from the inherent pleasures of the activities we need to pursue to achieve those goals.” (from “How Goals and Good Intentions Can Hold Us Back“)

Do you want a writing life?

March 2, 2013

A turning point in how I felt about my writing and myself came when I stopped obsessing about wanting to be a writer and realized that what I really wanted—what I’ve always wanted—was to live a writing life. The difference is profound and led to the name of this blog. The idea of being a …