We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E.M. Forster
We’ve been talking about our intentions for the writerly life. Not goals or
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Are We Settling? Or Are We Just Smart?
“Settling means letting all the pieces of your dreams float onto the surface so you can look at them, like glitter in a jar. So you can see what you have and let your ideas settle and rest.” Sarah Greek, playwright Have you noticed that not everything you dream comes to fruition—especially in writing? As
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The Big Why
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters, and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” -Virginia Woolf When I was teaching high school theater, parents would often say to me, “I know she’s talented/he has a gift, but is it really possible
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Your Personalized Butterfly Net
“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 our writerly life, from our studio to our staff, from what we want to say to who we
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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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