Writing is a solitary life. In order to eke out a few words worth reading, we sit alone for hours every day. To write, you have to embrace the solitude without feeling alone. You aren’t alone, you know. You’ve travelled miles of print to arrive at this very point. Hundreds if not thousands if not […]
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Time, attention, and focus are the most valuable things any of us have. The price of a writer’s work, and the most valuable thing a reader gives for a book, article, essay, short story, or post, is not the cost of the physical product. The price of a writer’s work is the time it takes
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Writing, like any skill, takes time to develop. There are no skipped steps, no short cuts, and no hacks. Writing requires practice. Nothing takes the place of time on task, but developing a writing practice isn’t solely an issue of word count. Building a practice means dedicating attention on different days to specific aspects of
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Quality of mind has no substitute. Developing quality of mind means that everything we do as artists and writers moves us toward honesty, focus, awareness, equilibrium, tranquility, and responsibility. These are the building blocks of our development, the foundation on which what we express is built. Self-expression is not simply a question of pouring out
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