Month: November 2011
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Don’t Consider What You’re Thinking
All right. So, earlier I had a post that discussed how we determine our own experience, not outside forces, and today’s post considers something related: how our thoughts can determine us, if we let them. Are you confused? First I tell you to think yourself happy, and now I’m telling you that’s dangerous? Admittedly, the…
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How Long is Too Long: The Illusion of Time in the Journey to Publication
I am always running out of time. It doesn’t seem to matter what I need to do, I never have enough time to do it. I’ve told my husband that we have so many things on our “to-do” list that if the length of the list determines the length of our lives, we can never…
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Getting Off the Writers’ Emotional Rollercoaster
Have you bought a lottery ticket lately? As I mentioned before, I wanted to do a series of blogs related to Laraine Herring’s wonderful The Writing Warrior. Today, I want to think about the following quote: “If you understand that suffering arises when we want our current experience to be something other than what it…
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Writing Books Pt2: Books on writing and the artist’s life
Welcome back and good morning as I tell you about some of my favorite books. I confess there was some appeal to breaking last week’s post on my favorite writing books into two parts because this is probably my favorite category, so it gives me a bit more space to chat about them. Again, I…