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How to Pursue Your Creative Impulse While Honoring Your Desire For Stability

So, how do you handle the dance between wanting lead with your creative or artistic side, and earning a grown-up worthy living? In the past few years, we’ve all been through a lot of upheaval. At the same time, this moment has reawakened a burning desire to pursue creative passions. It’s a recipe for big […]

Organizing a novel

Writers are lucky – we don’t require a lot of tools for the job. We can use a simple notebook or an app like Word, Google docs, or Evernote.  Yet there are more complex systems out there for writing. I have avoided things like Scrivener. Most people I know who use it are fairly savvy […]

Anniversary of Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book

I cannot believe it’s been four years since I published The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book.  (Oh, yeah, that pandemic short-circuited the world and we went into a time warp.)  The great thing about books is they live on and on. They don’t expire and with print-on-demand books published by the author, […]

How AI can now help with writing

I hadn’t been much interested in AI. I know it’s here, I know it’s going to change everything. Focused on my projects, I haven’t wanted to go down the rabbit hole of learning and assessing AI as a tool for work and writing.  But when LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman mentioned ‘research assistant’ on a podcast, […]

Writing two books at once!

Typically, I wouldn’t be working on more than one major project at a time. I am happiest when I have a behemoth to work on.  Before I get into the nitty-gritty of how it’s working for me to juggle two beasts, let me confess this: I rarely FEEL like working on these projects. Both of […]

Reclaim Your Body’s Wisdom: Yoga and Writing Retreat in Montana

Many of us have complex relationships with our bodies, and this course is an opportunity to cultivate a new, more harmonious connection with ourselves. Whether navigating a major life change or simply seeking to honor your body as it is, Reclaim Your Body’s Wisdom will guide you toward a deeper understanding and appreciation of yourself. […]

Sacred and Mundane: Writing in an Artist’s Sketchbook

What’s writing doing in an art retreat?  Writing is a great aid to the artist’s process. We might consider it more ‘jotting and scribbling’ than writing to communicate or share. I’m co-leading an art retreat in Vermont this summer: Vermont Landscape as Muse: Encaustics on Paper and the Written Word. Lorraine and I are thrilled […]

Vermont Art Retreat: Landscape as Muse

I can’t wait to co-lead an encaustic and writing retreat in Vermont with encaustic artist Lorraine Glessner. She’s been hosting these workshops for several years, and invited me to co-host one this summer. When we got together to brainstorm the content for the Vermont art retreat, we had such fun. It was easy to come […]

Spring Inspiration

What’s inspiring me My friend Constance started a new podcast this year. Dear Constance is a wonderful accompaniment to my morning coffee-making. Her episodes are short and inspirational. I feel like I’m getting wisdom and love from a cool New York friend. You might like it too! Sea Wife by Amity Gaige was such a […]

What feelings are necessary to commit to a project?

What kind of feelings do we need to commit to a project? Does it have to be WOO HOOO!!!! Or can it be something else?  I just realized that for me, I don’t need to feel WOW THIS IS GOING TO BE SO GREAT I AM SO EXCITED TO WRITE THIS. It doesn’t have to […]