Thoughts on writing and life for December 2022

What three gifts we should give ourselves to foster our creative life

This is an edited excerpt from my December 2022 newsletter, The Writing Life.

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast.

This is the time of year when many of us focus on what to give our nearest and dearest.

But too often there is one person who isn’t on our gift list: our writing self.

For one thing, the hustle and bustle of the holiday season often means that our writing schedule is tossed aside in fa...