“Yes, but How?”: Mindfulness and Writing
We often offer tips, tricks, tools, and discussions of basic decency and kindness to help writers. This helps some people, but not others. Depending on who’s reading, any given tool […]
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Attention, Writing, and Editing
Following from last week’s post on deep work, we’ve been thinking a bit more about attention. Skill in writing is, among other things, skill with subtleties of attention. So let’s […]
Deep Work in Writing, Editing, and Coaching
We’re always reflecting on how our editing and academic coaching adds value to the world. We think a big piece of it has to do with helping people find deep […]
Self-Care (Part 3): Kindness for Writers
In the reflection that started this year we talked about the importance of kindness in achieving your goals. Being kinder to ourselves is wonderful aspiration, but often the specifics of […]
The Zen of Writing (Part 4): Failure
Today we return to a series we’ve been developing on the Zen of writing. We started by examining the aspiration to achieve flow while writing, then looked at how we […]
Self-regulation (Part 2): Meeting Inspiration Half-way
In the first part of this series, we started considering how to treat writing as craft and not as a mysterious and inspired gift. Because the sad truth is that […]
The Zen of Writing (Part 1): Flow
Writing should be fun, but it seems impossible to make it fun. Last week we touched on some negative aspects of writing: the inevitable stuck places, the frustrations, the overwhelm. […]
Writer’s Block (Part 2)
Writing is hard and will always be hard. Writer’s block will always be lurking in the wings. When it comes, it comes as a big pile of interrelated feelings. Our […]