Tag: motivation

  • How I Beat Writer’s Block

    At the Peace Arch border crossing, entering the U.S. from Canada, the border patrol person asked me what I did for a living. He seemed very interested when I told him I was a writer and offered me a cure for writer’s block. “You know what you have to do…

  • Why I have not been writing as much

    From the perspective of the successful author, no reason is valid for not writing, short of being comatose or having both arms in a cast and my mouth wired shut. But for anyone who would like to hear about my process, here it is. For awhile I was writing five…

  • On time management and self-discipline

    Has it come to this? Why of course! And we always knew it would, one day. Joking aside, I was reading Sally Stuart’s Guide to Publishing a few days ago and became motivated to make some changes. It happened because I recognized who I am as a writer and what…