So it hits you at the end of a long day when you’ve just sat down to relax for a few minutes – “Crap! I have a blog post due tomorrow – and I have nothing!” Or maybe you’re not one that schedules posts, but you try to blog regularly and it’s been a while[…]
Time is a commodity of which I never have enough. Maybe you’re like me. I am constantly pulled between opposing forces as they try to steal my time. There is always more to be done than I can squeeze into one day. And I’ve taken pains to pare down my life to just the basics,[…]
You know that project hanging over your head? The one that’s been sitting half-finished for months, gathering dust, just waiting for you to bring it to completion? I have several. They make my skin itch when I walk past them, covering me with the debris of guilt every time I remember them. And once a[…]
A few weeks back, I talked about experiencing a surge of motivation caused by the pressure of writing fifty thousand words in thirty days, aka NaNoWriMo. Today I want to share with you the flip side of that intense commitment – the mid-month slump. Inspiration versus Hard Work In the beginning, I was writing in[…]