How To Quit Something Without Quitting It
Quit. It’s short, heavy word, isn’t it? A sharp word for a sharp thing. Sever your ties with a Big Thing in your life. A job. A mortgage. Give up. Walk away. Run. …
How To Find Passion Through Being Calm
What comes to mind when you consider the concept, “passion?” Intense emotion? Frantic activity? Excitement? Breathlessness? Explosive joy? The rollercoaster ride, the skydive, the desperate race? When people talk about …
Picking Yourself
On one of my podcast subscriptions, someone said recently, “Stop waiting for someone else to pick you. Pick yourself.” That dug up a memory from the late nineties, when Mum, …
Writing Issues: Projects, Outlines and Notes
This is a bit scary to write. I’m not new to blogging or (necessarily) writing, but I’m sort of new to blogging about writing, especially about writing a novel, which …
That’s Some Mighty Big Talk, Son
You may have noticed that I didn’t do another one of those resolution posts back in January. I’ll admit this freely: It was mainly because, at the time, I was …