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...