Why can’t I finish my book?
Why is it so hard for me to finish my fifth novel? What is my problem? Is it some sort of phobia? Because I can’t seem to finish my book and need yet another reason to procrastinate, I decided to look up phobias since I’m sure I have at least one—probably many. Okay, here we […]
My Pandemic Journal – The Creativity Challenge
Do you remember when you were young? Young enough to try anything because you had no idea you could fail? Or you knew you could fail, but you didn’t care? Too often, we ignore our creative pastimes, our dreams, because we feel we need to focus our energy elsewhere. We give our all to our […]
My Pandemic Journal – June 2, 2020
So far, 2020 has been a wild ride. A ride I’m hoping will end soon. I had big plans for 2020, as I’m sure a lot of people did. Then a pandemic was thrust upon us and my confidence in the future took a huge hit. Events I had hoped to attend this year have […]
What Do Project Managers and Authors Have in Common?
Project managers and authors have the same goal in mind – giving their clients/readers what they desire. To do this, PMs and authors need to give the key players in the project/story room to expand and explore. The author’s job is to give the characters enough leeway to tell the story without allowing them to […]
Don’t Listen to Naysayers
Don’t waste your time listening to naysayers. If anyone tells you you’re not good enough to do or to be something, especially when you haven’t been given the opportunity to try, don’t believe them. You should be the one to decide if you’re good at a task, an activity, or a profession. If you listen […]
ACTION: The Killer of Self-Doubt
Self-doubt is a beast. It sneaks up behind us, hijacks our thoughts, and tells us things we would never say to a friend or a loved one. What’s worse, we believe all the terrible things self-doubt tells us. We believe we can’t write. We believe we’re not good enough to go for that new job. […]
How Do YOU Find “Me” Time?
In early February, I began waking up at 5am to head to the gym for a workout. I had my doubts that I would be able to maintain that schedule, having been a night owl my entire life, but I’m happy to say, it’s now my routine. In fact, I am getting up at 4:30 […]
Stephen Hawking And Not Giving Up
Yesterday, on Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday, the world lost a brilliant mind. Stephen Hawking died in the early hours at the age of 76. Can anyone imagine what it would be like if he had succumbed to ALS just two years after being diagnosed as doctors had predicted? We were fortunate to have […]
More on Fear…
In my last blog post, I wrote about fear and how we tend to put things off for fear of looking inept or foolish. When it comes to writing, we are often afraid people will hate what we have spent months, possibly years, creating. We worry that what we have written won’t make any sense. […]
Writing Is Like Going to the Gym
I have always wanted to go to a gym and work out, but I could never find the time to do it. Just like writing, I want to do more but can’t seem to find the time. I have always maintained there aren’t enough hours in the day for a full-time job, a family, friends, […]