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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 6.19.24

Words for writers from Brit Marling

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Thoughts on writing and life for June 2024

Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse “I’ve never done it” with “I can’t do it.”

This is an edited excerpt from my June 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Do you have a tendency to confuse “I’ve never done it” with “I can’t do it”?

I know in the past I have, and it wasn’t until I was given some great advice from a fellow writer, ...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 6.12.24

Words for writers from Flannery O’Connor

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 6.5.24

Words for writers from Grace Paley

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.29.24

Words for writers from Alice Munro

 

 

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.22.24

Words for writers from Margaret Atwood

 

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Thoughts on writing and life for May 2024

Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse creative dormancy with creative death.

This is an edited excerpt from my May 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

I want to talk a little about dormancy—what it is, why it happens. First, the dictionary definition of dormancy is “the state of being temporarily inactive or inoperative.” ScienceDirect says it’s “a widely recognized beha...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 5.15.24

Words for writers from Lee Wyndham

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How Can Sound Impact Your Creative Process?—Guest Post by Briana Hilton

Briana Hilton

If you’ve had to work for endless hours to get an essay, book, or art project completed in time, then you may have aimed to boost focus by listening to music. Far from being a fad, listening to music has been proven in numerous studies to improve learning efficiency.

One study showed that listening to baroque music improved mood, concentration, and productivity—and that’s great news if you are an artist who wishes to meet all your daily creativity goals and you happen to be into Vi...

My Thoughts on… Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

I usually find myself shying away from memoirs about losing loved ones simply because it brings up those times in my life when I have had to say goodbye to people I loved deeply: my grandmother, my mother, and my father, for example.

Sometimes the pain of that loss can hurt as deeply as if it had just occurred, and I’d rather not go back into that place.

Despite that, I took a chance on reading Delia Ephron’s memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life.

I knew in advance that it was about the...