Getting the Mojo Back

Sometimes the mojo goes away.

Maybe it’s taken away–by a bad teacher, a sudden or chronic illness, a financial or career reversal. Or maybe what used to be easy has become impossibly hard: confidence fails, doubts proliferate, fears mount. What if I’ve given all I have to give? What if I’ll never get past where I am now? What if I’ve peaked, and that’s it?

That’s a scary place to be, as either a horse person or a writer. With horses, doubts and fears can lead to broken bones and worse. In writi...