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I want to assure you with all earnest­ness that no writ­ing is a waste of time — no cre­ative work where the feel­ings, the imag­i­na­tion, the intel­li­gence must work. With every sen­tence you write, you have learned some­thing. It has done you good. It has stretched your under­stand­ing. I know that. Even if I knew […]

I think there is some­thing nec­es­sary and life-giving about “cre­ative work”…A state of excite­ment. And it is like a faucet: noth­ing comes unless you turn it on, and the more that you turn it on, the more it car­ries. Bar­bara Euland, If You Want to Write Have you turned on the faucet today?

If you are writ­ing with­out zest, with­out gusto, with­out love, with­out fun, you are only half a writer. Ray Brad­bury Work with love and think of lik­ing it when you do it. Bar­bara Euland I think I’m pretty mushy and I accept the greasy mys­tery of love. Self-love is a big­ger hur­dle for me, but I […]

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of lik­ing it when you do it. It is easy and inter­est­ing. It is a priv­i­lege. There is noth­ing hard about it except your anx­ious van­ity and fear of fail­ure. Bar­bara Euland, If You Want to Write Around the time I dis­cov­ered that more […]

I worked my way out of a 20-year pho­bia about writ­ing and now I don’t know what’s what. When I write with focus and sim­plic­ity, I feel the energy of under­stand­ing. I fin­ish the ses­sion glad that I wrote some­thing. Then a stretch passes where I don’t get the glad feel­ing and I don’t write […]