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Working With Strengths
Read this on galpod.com. On Friday, I invited you to reflect on your strengths. I started on this path a while ago when I caught an...
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Oct 15, 20212 min read
Fits and Starts
Read this on galpod.com. The first thing anybody who knows anything about blogging advises beginner bloggers is that consistency is key....
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Oct 7, 20211 min read
Word Trail
Read this on galpod.com. This word trail also came about while I was reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It occurred to me that the...
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Oct 5, 20212 min read
Culture is Conflict
Read this on galpod.com. I recently finished Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. It really should be used as mandatory reading for school...
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Oct 4, 20212 min read
On Scary Stories
Read this on galpod.com. I've been thinking about stories lately. Mot the kind we write but the kind we tell ourselves. I put up on...
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Sep 7, 20212 min read
Word Trail
Read this on galpod.com. The school year has begun in our household, which I thought would give me more time for a post but no such luck....
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Aug 20, 20211 min read
Writing Prompt: Technology
Read this on galpod.com. Happy Friday! An ongoing argument with my generally reliable laptop got me thinking about the technology we...
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Jul 27, 20212 min read
On Organising
Read this on galpod.com. A couple of months ago, I started working with Todoist. I like this app because it's reasonably straightforward,...
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Jul 14, 20212 min read
Architects, Gardeners, and Culture (It's about writing, promise.)
Read this on galpod.com. I've been struggling with doing a scene-by-scene analysis for my manuscript over the last few weeks. I thought...
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Jul 12, 20213 min read
The Genious of a Well Crafted Book
Read this on galpod.com. Some famous writer said (I honestly can't remember who, and I couldn't find it anywhere) that she (I'm pretty...
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Jul 7, 20212 min read
How Cooking Makes Writing
Read this on galpod.com. I love cooking. I like looking at recipes, finding the one that works best for what I have, tweaking it a bit to...
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Jul 6, 20212 min read
Drafting: The Rodin Way
Read this on galpod.com. I went to see the Rodin exhibition at the Tate Modern with a couple of friends. It was good fun (as far as...
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Apr 19, 20212 min read
Things to do When You Find Writing Unbearable
Read this on galpod.com. I think it's important that we say it. Even if you love writing and can't imagine your life without writing and...
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Mar 29, 20213 min read
Why Writing is so Damn Hard
Last week, on the amazing Writers Group, we talked about why writing is so friggin' hard. Thomas Mann said that “A writer is someone for...
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Feb 8, 20212 min read
Morning Pages
Read this on galpod.com. I've been working with The Artist's Way for eight weeks. The book itself has been helpful to me, even though I...
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Sep 22, 20202 min read
On Writers’ Groups
Read this on galpod.com. A couple of years ago (feels like forever but it’s mostly the pandemic), when I started writing fiction...
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Sep 14, 20203 min read
Depression’s Two-Pronged Approach
Read this on galpod.com. I’ve been experiencing recently another hit of heightened anxiety. The kiddos went back to school, and today...
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Feb 11, 20192 min read
A Desk with a View: On Ideal and Realistic Writing Environments
Read this on galpod.com. I read an article with advice on how to create the ideal writing environment. Sometimes I fall for these things,...
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Feb 4, 20193 min read
The Creative Spark
Read this on galpod.com. I've been thinking lately about what it means to be creative. I have no definitive answers about that. I'm no...
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Jan 31, 20192 min read
On Creative Multitasking and Procrastination
Read this on galpod.com. I'm stuck. Remember that breakthrough I had in my story in July? Turns out it wasn't much of a breakthrough...
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