Tag: goals
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The Practice

When you are a creative person — a writer, a painter, a woodcarver — you crave the very act itself. You need to do it; not unlike the need to eat or drink, more spiritual in a way, it remains as necessary. Rot and despair follow otherwise, only serving to further spin the doom loop.
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Course Corrections

This site has seen a lot of my going back and forth, changing my mind and goals with the regularity of how often one is supposed to change their underwear (Daily, ladies and gentlemen — at least). And here I go again. I will keep trying and trying and trying. It will be an honest…
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Relearning to Start

The first step is always difficult. Even when confidence is high, the beginning of any new journey is wrought with the factors of the unknown. We know little of how well we are going to be, of what the steps on the path will bring to us as we move forward. Around each bend resides…
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Balance
All in? All out? Full speed or full stop? It seems difficult to decide between the two options, as though there is only two options. My writing life has been one extreme or the other, like trying to drive a car through a crowded city with only two options: slamming one’s foot onto the gas…
