Category Archives: Get Back to Writing Practice
Begin Again
The possibility that is offered, over and over, to begin again, and reclaim your own imperfect, brilliant, lifeworthy writing voice.
9 Steps to Developing a Writing Practice
Exploring the ingredients of writing practice; what helps you develop and stick to it.
Is It Time to Burst Your Writing Bubble?
Too much dreaming about your writing life can get in the way of the writing, and the living. Harsh as it might be, is it time to burst your writing bubble?
Stop Feeling Distracted, and Start Writing
Practical and psychological approaches to reducing distractions and getting down to writing.
How You Reduce External Distractions to Sit Down and Write
Suggestions from readers on ways to reduce distractions and commit to writing practice.
Distracted? Tell Me About It!
Journal exercise to write about what you don’t want to write about… and start writing what you do.
What’s the Opposite of Distracted?
Exploring the opposites of distracted. What if “attentive” was the opposite, rather then “focused”?
What Distractions Allow Us to Do: Part 2
The hidden benefits of distractions: keeping you too busy to do the (risky) projects.
What Distractions Allow Us to Do: Part 1
A different take on distractions, remembering the positive things that modern day distractions allow us to do.
The Holy Grail of Focus
Exploring our obsession with focus, and suggesting ‘flow’ as a more positive and creative state to get into.