How to Prepare to Write in 61 Excruciating Steps

Because we ALL have days like this… Sit down at your desk 2. Check your calendar and confirm it’s time to write 3. Open a blank document 4. Look at the blank page 5. Review your writing plan (if you have one) 6. Decide your writing plan is dumb OR Feel certain...

How to Keep Writing When Life Gets in The Way

We’ve all been there. We’re rocking away on our goals, aspirations, intentions…. and then life…. happens. We get off track, lose our way, and find ourselves some hours, days, weeks or months later, just trying to get back to the place where it all made sense,...

From the Scraps: A Poem for You. And Me.

I don’t have a post written for this week and no time set aside to write one… So I dove into my “scraps”, the bits I write and don’t publish. Whether they don’t fit or I’m too scared or they’re just simply crap, for whatever reason they sit on my computer....

My BFF Squashed My Creative Spirit

So first, before we go any further, let me just say that the woman in question still holds the title of “best friend” in my world. It is a true BFF kind of love that we share. Just so you know. Now let me take you back… … to those early but oh so formative...

Fear, Resistance & Netflix

You know those days you just can’t seem to get anything done… those days that creep into weeks… perhaps even become a most dreadful month. When you don’t know what’s stopping you. Everything is right there in front of you – your vision board, your to-do list, your...