Lately, I have been able to free up more time during the day while writing much more than I ever did. I don’t feel as stressed as I used to and have much more time reading books, going for walks, and even […]
The hardest part of writing a book is writing the first draft. That’s until you have written it. Once you have knocked it down, it becomes the easiest part. Then editing becomes the most painful activity. For the last four days, I […]
If you have been writing for some time, chances are you want to write a book. You get, I think there is a book in me, moments now and then, but you ignore them thinking writing a book is too big a […]
As more and more writers are moving to write online, the habit of journal writing is dying. Yet journals are the breeding grounds of ideas, insights, and creativity. I started journal writing more than twenty years ago, after reading Julia Cameron’s legendary […]
This year, in mid-April, I set myself an outrageous challenge. To write 100 articles in 100 days. It was outrageous because I averaged just 2–3 articles a week, spending 5–6 hours per article. If I were to make article writing an integral […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote profound words in one of his journals that are not as well known as his other quotes but have the power to jolt every beginner who has aspirations to become a writer. He wrote: “Meek young men grow […]