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Trust the Timing
A creative life is full of strange timing, timing that—if you make yourself available to it, will surprise and delight you with opportunities and learning, growth and discovery. But you can’t force it, you can only keep showing up to the task, and more importantly, cultivating joy and pride in the process, for this to ...
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No Work ‘Til Spring
Even though I’m still carrying my jacket more often than wearing it, it’s January, and thus, ostensibly Winter. I know by the strange membrane of gray that stretches tight over the sky, in the air, as though I’m looking at the world through a veil of ancient lace. And even though this is California, where ...
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One Thing at a Time
I often read two books at a time: one on my kindle, one in hard copy—their different tones competing for space in my head. I almost always work on more than one freelance project in a given week, and really, most of the time, I’m gnawing on multiple pieces of my own fiction. To be really honest, ...
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Deepen Your Characters
When we write fictional characters, they begin as relative strangers. Sure, he may dictate a tale to you in a “voice” so vivid you would swear you had met him before; or you may know what she looks like and where she comes from, but for most writers, the characters only become real to you ...
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Writing that Transforms
My altar is a sprawl of papers and books stacked precariously, pens that have lost their caps and odd flotsam that got put here in some moment while, busy chewing on story ideas, my fingers simply dropped an item. There’s no incense or holy water here, and my priest is not one, but many voices, ...
