Gah! Always such a joy to read you (your WWKRD missive is printed and posted beside my desk). Thanks for the wise words and abundant levity - I look forward to every single one of these, and am never disappointed.
Yep. Grind culture will result in writer's, or painter's, or dancer's block. The unconscious always delivers if you feed it with laughter and pleasure.
I love this metaphor! I think it’s true even if, for instance, you personally gain inspiration from some darker places. I mean, I think you can still have an approach of play and observation even if the core of the you you’re “mining” isn’t rainbows & sunshine -- and you’re Ok with not being rainbows & sunshine, if that makes any sense.
Thanks for lightening the tone of your marvelous blog a bit. While all the posts are gorgeously written and helpful, I am embarrassed to admit I can find them daunting. I'm a semi established writer, and I come away from many posts with wondering how the hell I've managed to publish anything. I'm working on a proposal to submit to my longtime editor/publisher now, and I'm trying to follow your suggestions in the two main proposal-writing posts while not losing my mind in the arduousness of it all. Writing proposals was always a challenge, but with your spot-on advice, it's even more so! (My agent gives me almost no advice on these matters.)
I was in the coal-to-diamonds mode, but this post reminds me of the tenebrescent quality that's actually at my core despite a very rough miniseries of unfortunate events in my life right now. I can have fun AND write a great proposal? Bring it on!
Gah! Always such a joy to read you (your WWKRD missive is printed and posted beside my desk). Thanks for the wise words and abundant levity - I look forward to every single one of these, and am never disappointed.
Yep. Grind culture will result in writer's, or painter's, or dancer's block. The unconscious always delivers if you feed it with laughter and pleasure.
Just here to thank you for the MG side eye. 😂
I love this metaphor! I think it’s true even if, for instance, you personally gain inspiration from some darker places. I mean, I think you can still have an approach of play and observation even if the core of the you you’re “mining” isn’t rainbows & sunshine -- and you’re Ok with not being rainbows & sunshine, if that makes any sense.
Thanks for lightening the tone of your marvelous blog a bit. While all the posts are gorgeously written and helpful, I am embarrassed to admit I can find them daunting. I'm a semi established writer, and I come away from many posts with wondering how the hell I've managed to publish anything. I'm working on a proposal to submit to my longtime editor/publisher now, and I'm trying to follow your suggestions in the two main proposal-writing posts while not losing my mind in the arduousness of it all. Writing proposals was always a challenge, but with your spot-on advice, it's even more so! (My agent gives me almost no advice on these matters.)
I was in the coal-to-diamonds mode, but this post reminds me of the tenebrescent quality that's actually at my core despite a very rough miniseries of unfortunate events in my life right now. I can have fun AND write a great proposal? Bring it on!