Ever since I could talk, I have enjoyed telling stories to friends and family and acquaintances. Yes, I’m a bit of a performer, who doesn’t mind the spotlight – but mostly I enjoy what is shared in the telling of a story.
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If you’re like me, you love getting into the Flow. There’s nothing better, really, and the truth is that the fact that that’s when you write your best stuff is just gravy.
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It’s an inside-out world we live in. I know it doesn’t seem that way most of the time. Well, maybe it does when you’re writing.
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If I’m smart, when I start a book, I don’t talk to anyone about it except my wife and my agent, and even then I don’t tell my agent anything about the book except that I’m writing it.
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You know how it is when you’re in the zone. It doesn’t matter how long you’re in it, you know when you are, and it doesn’t get any better than that. It feels great, whether you’re writing or talking to a friend or dreaming of a new idea. You’re not worried about the future or mulling over the past, you’re just interested in what’s coming next.
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The moment I began to see my work as service, as sharing what I value most with other people, I was moving with direction.
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When you finish a book, and are thinking about how and where you’re going to publish it, you will likely be asked to decide where on the bookshelf it belongs.
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Sometimes, though, I’ll find the willpower midstream to say, “Let’s not do this.”
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For a time when I was boy, my father loved to ride roller coasters. When he took my younger brother, my older sister, and I to an amusement park, he and my sister would always make a point to ride the biggest roller coaster the park had to offer. My own feelings about those rides was decidedly mixed.
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I grew up in the 70s and 80s, when guitar heroes were much more a thing than they are today.
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Easy to get addicted to distractions as they become my safe harbor from a storm that seems to follow wherever I go.
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If I look beyond the veil of appearance or wealth or labels like romance writer or poet or memoirist, I see someone much like me,
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The only real measure of time may be our suffering and fear.
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The best remedy for anxiety or despair is to turn to my curiosity.
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Writing is only a form of expression.
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Just as I choose every word that goes on my page, and in so doing find my way to the story I want to tell, so too I have to choose peace again and again and again.
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Publishing, however you do it, is how you really finish something.
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On the other side of forgiveness is always appreciation of the very thing I resented and resisted and devalued.
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Artists, and writers in particular, spend every day asking questions to which they don’t have an answer.
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All our accomplishments are really bi-products of the first success, the one that comes before all the acceptance letters and reviews and bookstore appearances.
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