Don’t Wait To Write Your Story!

“What are you waiting for? Why are you avoiding the real work? What will it take for you to go deeper?”

—Phil Cousineau in Stoking the Creative Fires

The Phil Cousineau quote above ought to be for all of us a stirring call to continue—or to begin if that is where we are at—the work of writing a depth memoir we may have procrastinated about for so long.

It is later than you think. In the years I have been doing this work, I have seen writers die and writers grow too old. The energy not only...