“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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Gleanings from What I’ve Been Reading
“Learning by doing is especially important. There is more to be learned from writing a bad novel than from attending twenty good novel-writing workshops…And to do that writing, a writer needs inner permission to write.” ~ Eric Maisel, Living the Writer’s Life. Giving myself permission to be the writer has been my life’s challenge. The…
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Managing My Delightful Introverted Self
Did you ever think that your self needs managing? I never thought of it quite like that, until I came across an in-depth article: ARE YOU AN INTROVERT OR AN EXTROVERT? WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR CAREER, by Belle Beth Cooper. Ms. Cooper gives good tips on how to manage your inner introvert or extrovert. I’ve long…
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A Few Encouraging Quotes from things I’ve read this week:
On Writing: “What distinguishes writers from non writers and would-be writers is that writers write.” ~Eric Maisel, Living the Writer’s Life Notice it is write, not publish. While I can fine writing terribly hard work, the hardest thing for me is being a writer. On finding peace: “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances…
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Classic View and Other Changes
You should have seen my face, when I logged on to write a new post. The screen was not one I recognized. I went through surprise, dismay, distrust, annoyance, high irritation, and finally great relief of the hallelujah type when I saw up in the corner the message: “Missing the old editor? No worries, just…
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Self-Encouragement
I thought you might want to read Steven Pressfield’s latest post, The Sphere of Self-Reinforcement, where he asks and answers the question, How we keep believing? Believing is what keeps us putting one foot in front of the other. Pressfield calls it self-reinforcement–which is the way we keep on keeping on. There is no other…
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