Category: Writing Life

Our Writing Life column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.

When you build something from nothing, success comes from a combination of preparation and vision.

There’s lots of writing advice out there. Some of it is good. Some of it is bad, and some of it is downright paralyzing.

….Looking back, I saw I was writing about a time in my life when I didn’t care about the narrator—myself—either.

Somewhere along the way, I convinced myself that writing a book was for other people.

I don’t think instructors talk enough about the emotional toll it takes, how hard it is to juggle and hold up all those voices on the table.

Connecting people through self-expression is something I care deeply about.

I admire writers who have the stamina to spend daily disciplined hours on their writing. That’s not me.

It may seem old-fashioned these days, but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog.

Collecting, or notetaking, was rigorous and compulsive but it forced me to deeply note events as I lived them…

The consistency of practicing yoga — and writing — lets big and small shifts arrive unannounced.

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