Thoughts on writing and life for July 2024

Just a few thoughts on how important it is to “unpack” your brain from one book project before you start on another.

This is an edited excerpt from my July 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.

The photo to the right was intended to be humorous, but the more I looked at it, the more I realized that it wasn’t just the suitcase that needed to be unpacked. It was also my mind.

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