Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, it’s the end of the year… A time that most people take to reflect on what has happened in the past and what you’re looking forward to in the future. I’ll be doing a few posts along those themes, starting with a classic: A roundup…
Category: Career
How do you find motivation when your mind is freaking out?
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I am having an extremely hard time doing anything this past week. It’s not like I am lying in bed sick or depressed or feeling lazy or something like that. Nope. My problem today is my mind, and its utter inability to quiet the F down…
How I’m writing about the things that seriously SCARE me
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. A couple days, I wrote about the scariest thing that I could imagine: my recovery. It’s funny to think about how recovery, which many would consider a “success,” is something so scary to talk about. But I was terrified of admitting that I had a problem and…
The scary part of turning 30… That I’ve sort of held back on
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Turning 30 hasn’t really gone exactly the way I thought it would. The big Three-Oh, as they call it, has been both much better and much worse than I ever could have imagined. I remember, years ago, when I realized that this age was on the…
Why I’m happy that I failed at my July “writing every day” project
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I have always been one of those people that is much better at ideas than the actual follow through. You can probably ask any one of my friends about this. I can spend a morning coming up with 36 ideas to write about (as I recently…