When the Voices of Doom Come Calling: an Empowering Mantra

This is my first week back writing after spending the holidays hanging out with my sons, planning for the new year, and reading. The project I chose to start with this year has felt difficult to write.

It’s not the story or the passion with which I approach it. I love this story. I long to see, on paper, what I see in my head. I want it to have the same greatness on the page that it does in my imagination. I look forward to writing it every day.

But the resistance has felt like wading through...