Please join me for a Sunday afternoon workshop on Writing as a Spiritual Practice on March 30 at beautiful Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA. The blank page…the empty Word document. What to do when the creative juices aren’t flowing, and
GETTING OUT OF MY OWN WAY
Last week I became an adolescent. Maybe even a two year old. I attended one of those internet book marketing seminars where they tell you that you have to blog hourly, at least six days a week, and that every
WRITING ON THE SKIDS
How often have we heard that happiness is an inside job? I believe that writing is an inside job as well. It’s whatever we make it. It can be hard, enervating, and frustrating—or inspired, uplifting, and fulfilling. Like many aspects
Dissipating Dark Fears: Busting Zone-Blocker #3
Zone-Blockers keep us from experience the joy and freedom of writing in the Zone, that wonderful place within us filled with clarity, creativity, and unselfconscious ease. The last two posts were about busting Zone-Blockers: #1, The Big Miasma, and #2,
The Grey Fuzz: Zone-Blocker #2
This series of posts addresses those nasty phenomena that block us from experiencing the Zone—and the wonderful space of clarity, freedom, creativity, and unselfconscious ease that we feel when we write from the Zone. The Grey Fuzz is my Zone-Blocker
Busting the Zone-Blockers
I love the exquisite peace and focus that come of writing in the Zone. The words well up quickly, effortlessly, from a place deep within. Time and space disappear. I feel energized, clear, creative, and completely unselfconscious. But then, suddenly,