“The air is full of tunes. I just reach up and pick one.”
Willie Nelson
In our time together, here and on the podcast, we’ve learned how to dream in our authentic way about everything related to
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When the Dream Hits a Snag
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.” Emily Dickinson As soon as we get the hang of dreaming a writerly life, we’re on our way to making it a reality. Without a vision for the future, we just kind of let whatever happens happen – and it usually doesn’t. There we are, taking baby
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You Hear the Voice… And It Is Yours
“Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, ‘Listen to me.’” Jhumpa Lahiri I don’t know how it happened for you – or if it has yet. For me, it was like this. Forty-five years ago, I’d written and submitted several stories to periodicals like Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping. (It
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Dreaming Beyond
“The world we view is bigger than what we see.” Abigail Horgash, Down the Rabbit Hole Journaling I’ve talked to many, many (and did I mention many?) women writers in my 41-year career as a published author, and I estimate (though I haven’t measured it empirically) that 90% of them have said something beyond their
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Sacred Studio
“I began to hear, in what kept coming from across the street into the room where I typed, the recurring dreams of youth, inescapable, never to be renounced, naming themselves over and over again.” Eudora Welty, Collected Essays, referring to writing near the Belhaven College music building You would think a highly successful novelist like
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What Is Your Platform? (My What?)
I remember the first time that came up in some gathering of writers I was in. Those apparently in the know were adamant about the fact that we had no chance of continuing to be traditionally published if we didn’t have a “platform.” My only acquaintance with that concept – and a passing one at
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The Dream Reader
“Every book, every volume, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon, THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
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