Thoughts on writing and life for November 2024

Why we need to take time just to breathe for creativity’s sake.

This is an edited excerpt from my November 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.

Photo by Max van den Oetelaar on Unsplash

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