Tag: The Writing Life

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Approaching the craft of writing as a sacred dialogue with the psyche. Here, we explore the writer’s journey not just as a technical pursuit, but as a psychological rite of passage—where the struggle for the right word is a struggle for greater consciousness and an act of service to the soul.

  • Why We Read

    Why We Read

    Writers enlarge us by giving us lives that are bigger than they would be otherwise.

  • Dare to Be Idle

    Dare to Be Idle

    The great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

  • For the Writer

    For the Writer

    Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring on the door.

  • Freedom

    Freedom

    I remembered my own childhood, the hours spent outside in trees, playing in the shade of my grandmother’s huge, gnarled Crape Myrtle, reading on the porch swing,

  • Quoting Annie Dillard

    Quoting Annie Dillard

    One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. — Annie Dillard

  • Anniversary

    Anniversary

    Choosing to face the blank page and write my 1500-2000 words a day became an act of obedience, and ultimately of love for the person I struggled to love more than any other, which was me.

  • When the Muse is Silent

    When the Muse is Silent

    “There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station.” Stephen King