Last week I went on a writer’s retreat with three writing friends. I packed up my suitcase, my laptop, my manuscript notes, my highlighters, my sticky notes, and my good attitude and headed for Pine Knoll Shores, NC. I turned on an out of office message, cleared the decks of coaching work, and prepared toContinue reading “Favorite Investment: A Writer’s Retreat”
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Writing Distractions
Oftentimes this blog is me writing advice to myself. I figure if I need to hear it, someone else might, too. This week, I’m thinking a lot about distraction. Probably because thinking about why I’m distracted is also distracting me from my writing. It’s a vicious cycle, people. But a cycle that I’m pretty sureContinue reading “Writing Distractions”
Learning to Write From my Kindergartner
Somehow I lost October and November. Sixty-one days evaporated from my calendar. Erased like dust in an etch-a-sketch. There one minute. Gone the next. Between the great kitchen renovation project of 2015 followed closely on its heels by Thanksgiving, two months are a blur of construction dust, paint fumes, shopping and chopping. December easedContinue reading “Learning to Write From my Kindergartner”