Write with TLC

Somewhere around mid-Spring last year, I began to acknowledge I felt overwhelmed when accessing my creative energy required navigating unexpectedly rough terrain that had once been a joyful jaunt. At first I couldn't see that the problem lay in my support of other people's creativity at the expense of my own. I kept wondering why I had no creative energy left for my work at the end of each day, but it never occurred to me that I was giving it away. After all, we hear all the time that creative energy begets creative energy, so if I was sharing my creative energy with others, I should be increasing my creative energy, right? Somewhere in there, I signed up for Christina Katz's Unwrapping Your Creativity Challenge ( no longer available ) with every intention of participating. S he emailed a challenge each day to those who signed up. I didn't even start the challenge. The emails went into their own special folder on in my Inbox, and I felt guilty each day that I didn...

Inertia... We've all fallen prey to inertia... Recently, I discovered I missed one of Kristin Nador's blog posts, 5 Ways To Get Rid Of Inertia , back in October. As I read through it, I thought about how often the problem isn't the doing, it's the getting started. It's amazing how often just writing that first word seems to create a kinetic energy all its own. The first word is down and then the second and then the third and then... the next thing you know, you have a whole sentence, then a paragraph, then a page, then a chapter, then a book... But it all starts with breaking the inertia. This doesn't just hold true for writing but really for anything we want to do. Hiking a trail starts with one step and then the next and then the next until the movement feels natural and not overwhelming. As we follow the path, we discover new beauty and reawaken our appreciation for the world around us and the fact that our bodies allow us to take these journeys. At...