The future is my outline; the present is the sentence I’m finding right now.
Read MoreI’m not saying we invent all our problems to keep our life interesting, but I do find myself wondering if we invent most of them.
Read MoreMy response was so immediate and intense it was as if a trigger had been pulled in me.
Read MoreThere is something immediately exciting about another person bringing their imagination to a project that had previously lived entirely in my mind.
Read MoreWhat’s the opposite of greed? I thought.
Read MoreHow easy it is to misplace the source of my discomfort.
Read MoreThere are so many thoughts that wander into our heads that are absolutely incompatible with writing.
Read MoreThere is something inherently friendly about recognition, the light feeling I get when I glance through a crowd, and there to my surprise is a face I know.
Read MoreNever underestimate the gravitational pull of your authentic interest.
Read MoreWhere listening and thinking overlap is in the choice of thoughts we follow.
Read MoreSomething within me had come to rest – had actually been at rest even while I wrote.
Read MoreWhenever I’m feeling trapped or lost, my best plan of action is to look to the source of everything I fear and love.
Read MoreThere’s always a little relief every time I finish a sentence that belongs in my story.
Read MoreOnce you get an idea you really like, you’re done for.
Read MoreWhat was fun yesterday is not always fun today.
Read MoreWriting a story takes time, time that grants me the opportunity to feel the effect of my words as I lay them out one beside the other.
Read MoreI’ll not find the next cool thing to do by trying to do what I think I should.
Read MoreI thought that once I was successful, I would be free at last from doing something I didn’t want to do, and that what I was doing always determined how I felt.
Read MoreSometimes as writers we simply don’t trust our audience to get just how big a deal something is.
Read MoreYou can stare out that window your whole life, and people will never all agree.
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