One of my followers on Twitter, @smunorevesa, asked if I ever write poetry, and when I would write next. I love that kind of request. I told him that I do write it, but not often for this blog, and that I would deliver a poem to him later today. I am going through a […]
You lack confidence. But you weren’t always this way. Babies do not come out of the womb doubting themselves. They believe that if anyone around them can do something, there is no reason they can’t do it, too. They have no fear of failure or of falling. They fall numerous times over without hesitating to […]
This is the continuation of An Encounter with Hope. If you missed Chapter 1, I recommend you read it first. “I’m sorry. You’re bankrupt. There’s nothing left.” I hear the words being spoken by my accountant but my brain can’t accept them. It seems impossible? How did I go from having over a million dollars […]
They come to me for help in telling their stories. They come to me from all walks of life. Some are running successful businesses making multiple millions of dollars. Some are barely scraping by and each day is filled with insecurity on more levels than it is possible to describe. Each one unique, each one […]
I get it. The low pay, the long hours, the isolation, and the uncertainties involved in writing can all lead us to believe we’re not that important, that we don’t really matter, and that what we do doesn’t really make a difference. It’s easy to doubt that what we do makes a difference because we […]
There are 10 stages I recommend writers go through in producing a quality work of fiction. The stages have evolved over the years as my experience with writing grows and I’ve seen more of what works and what doesn’t. The only published work of fiction I have to my name is The Secret of the […]
I am about to give you a lot of hard truths, ugly truths, truths that you might not want to hear but that you need to hear if you’re going to change your life and accomplish your mission of bringing your work to the world. It’s also the truth you need to hear if you […]
The Democratic Party debates do not matter. The outcome of those debates is insignificant. In fact, political debates in general do not matter. It isn’t those debates that will shape the future of our country. But I’ll tell you what will.
A few days ago, my friend Emily Lock of Mythbinder wrote a beautiful piece about her struggle with procrastination dragons. In my own piece about writing transformational characters, I wrote about dragons being a metaphor for whatever big, bad, epic struggle you face in life. And here is everything I’ve learned about winning the battle […]
I haven’t done much writing this month. Again. But it’s not really my fault. You see, I have a bit of a problem with dragons. Not so much the scaly animals with wings, but the metaphorical sort of dragons: the epic personal struggles we all undergo. There are five procrastination dragons in my writing room, and […]
