What To Do When You’ve Lost Sight of the Whole Point

I wrote in this month’s edition of my Back Patio newsletter that I’m feeling creatively droughty lately. I have been for a while now. I told my mom on the phone recently that it feels like I’ve said everything there is to say. This seems like it might be a teeny-tiny problemfor someone who makes acareer as a writer.

In this month’s newsletter I also admitted that this drought feelslike more than plain old burn-out. There is something deeper at workhere.

The truth is, I’ve been playing by the...