I spent the past three days (well, two and one half of them, anyhow) at the annual Philadelphia Writers Conference. It happens to be the oldest continuous-running writer's conference in the United States, I believe, and there's a reason it continues on from year to year ( Read more... )

As I said at the close of yesterday's post, today I'm talking about another reason for writing avoidance. It takes different shapes and colors with different people and goes by different names - perfectionism being one of them - but it comes down to fear. Essentially, it's the fear that we aren't good enough to pull off whatever we're working on, ( Read more... )

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Words to describe today's weather include grey, cloudy, drizzly (or, to use the term Austen would have done, "mizzly"), and, if not windy, then breezy at the least ( Read more... )