Posts Tagged ‘writing’

A deadline is the arch nemesis of humanity’s most endearing hindrance, procrastination.

My motivation for writing work would flame high and then, when I felt like I wasn’t succeeding well enough or fast enough, it would completely burn out.

I’d peel my face off the pillow and read what I’d written the night before. And even in my still fermented state, I knew it was trash.

He used his #2 pencils to record, in tiny perfect handwriting, every single writing-related task that he carried out each day for 50 years.

If we want to be working writers, the only thing that really matters is that we keep showing up.

Why would someone who freely writes about the most private things in her life feel panicky when asked about those very things in public?

Achieving your dream of [insert dream here] will most likely also include a day job. Or a night job. Or a day and a night job. Or any job you can find.